Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis

by Daniel W. Crofts

Book Overview

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.

"Crofts's study focuses on Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, but it includes analyses of the North and Deep South as well. As a result, his volume presents the views of all parties to the sectional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807844306
• ISBN13: 9780807844304
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 531 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"