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

Reluctant Confederates : upper South unionists in the secession crisis (Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies)

History

Daniel W Crofts

Americas

The University of North Carolina Press

Upstream Odyssey traces the fascinating life of Protestant missionary Daniel Crofts, the author's grandfather, who worked in China from 1895 to 1944 as a member of the China Inland Mission (CIM). Daniel arrived in China as the missionary tide was rising and stayed until it ebbed, half a century later. He was based after 1904 in Guizhou Province, part of southwest China's remote interior. A slow two-month journey upriver separated Guizhou from the coast and from the world beyond. Daniel witnessed the continuing rhythms of daily life during a time of desperate poverty, political upheaval, banditry, revolution, and war. His experiences illuminate in miniature a central thread of modern world history China s encounter with the West

Upstream Odyssey: An American in China, 1895-1944

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