Reluctant Confederates

by Crofts, Daniel W.

• ISBN13: 9780807844304
• ISBN10: 0807844306
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv	(10)
Acknowledgments	xxv
Prologue	1	(7)
1. Unionist Profiles	8	(29)
2. Political Parties in the Late Antebellum Upper South	37	(29)
3. The Political Origins of Upper South Unionism	66	(24)
4. Unionists on the Defensive	90	(14)
5. The Unionist Argument	104	(26)
6. The Unionist Offensive	130	(34)
7. Measuring the Unionist Insurgency	164	(31)
8. The Unionists and Compromise	195	(20)
9. The Unionists, the Republican Party, and President-Elect Lincoln	215	(39)
10. The Unionists and President Lincoln--The March 1861 Rapprochement	254	(35)
11. Reversal of the Hands-Off Policy	289	(19)
12. The Unionists, Fort Sumter, and the Proclamation for Seventy-five Thousand Troops	308	(26)
13. Forced to Choose Sides: Southern Unionists after the Proclamation	334	(19)
Epilogue: Rethinking the Secession Crisis	353	(8)
Appendix I: Multiple Regression--Party, Slavery, and Secession	361	(6)
Appendix II: Ecological Regression--Estimating Voter Behavior	367	(9)
Appendix III: Statistics, Secession, and the Historians	376	(7)
Notes	383	(74)
Bibliographical Essay	457	(24)
Index	481