| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War. By Frank Towers. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. xiv, 285 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2297-6.)

Recent books about rural nonslaveholders challenge the supposed unity of the Confederate South, and this work shows that the planters could not rely on southern urban workers either. Frank Towers examines Baltimore, New Orleans, and St. Louis, and finds that they were the sites of Union triumphs at the beginning of the Civil War because they contained significant loyalist elements. The two cities in border states played a major role in keeping those states in the Union, and New Orleans had a large population of loyalists on whom the U.S. Army could rely after it seized lower Louisiana in 1862. Many Union adherents in these cities sympathized with the cause of Abraham Lincoln because they shared with him a vision of democracy that would keep the planter class out of the West, and make the federal government an instrument of positive change for all citizens.

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