The subject of this book, one concerning the United States Civil War, is of special interest to me. Both my mother and father's side of the family were from the Deep South. However, many of both my mother and father's ancestors happened to have been from areas in which there were strong Union sympathies before and during the Civil War.
Maybe you will find the subject of this book interesting, too, for your own reasons. I know one thing--many people in the United States never seem to tire of hearing and reading about the U.S. Civil War.
This book is marked down 98%, by the way that Amazon calculates it. What a great bargain
Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies). By Daniel W. Crofts. Rated 5 stars, but from only 3 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $41.95; digital list price $29.99; Kindle price now
$0.90. 531 pages. The University of North Carolina Press, publisher.
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Book Description
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 conflict and offers a vivid portrait of the interaction between them."--American Historical Review
"Refocuses our attention on an important but surprisingly neglected group--the Unionists of the upper South during the secession crisis, who have been too readily ignored by other historians."--Journal of Southern History