The Devil Let Loose Generally

According to Hunnicutt, Virginia and the Upper South would become overcrowded with African Americans. [...]showing just how far he had shifted politically since 1860, the Reverend Hunnicutt even stumped for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson in the 1864 presidential contest.46 After the Confederacy collapsed, Hunnicutt returned to Virginia, but not to Fredericksburg. The South Sacrificed; or, The Horrors of Secession (Philadelphia, 1863), iii-vi; W. P. Fessenden et al., eds., Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (Freeport, Maine, 1971), 149. Because Hunnicutt s book consists predominantly of his newspaper editorials, references will include both the books page numbers followed in brackets by the dates of the cited editorials when possible. 3. According to Snay, the overwhelming majority of southern clergy supported secession by 1860, and they played a critical role in leading the South out of the Union (see Snay, Gospel of Disunion, esp. chap. 2).