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Kentucky

The State that Seceded After the War was Over Blog

The State that Seceded After the War was Over

Kentucky never voted to leave the Union, yet it produced an entire rival government, thousands of Confederate soldiers, and a star on the Confederate battle flag. That contradiction makes it one of the strangest states during the Civil War—a place where roughly 25,000 to 40,000 men fought for the Confederacy while somewhere between 74,000 and 125,000, including approximately 24,000 to…
Jose Nino
October 16, 2026
Lincoln and the Border States Review Posts

Lincoln and the Border States

A review of Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union (University Press of Kansas, 2014) by William C. Harris. William C. Harris has set before him the admirable task of examining whether the border states indeed “unequivocally cast their lot with the Union” in 1861 (page 8). Unfortunately, his political views send him into the issue with one hand…
Terry Hulsey
June 29, 2021
Kentucky’s Confederate Sons Blog

Kentucky’s Confederate Sons

Suffering from a nasty bacterial infection, the insomnia induced by a lamp kept lit in his cell at all hours, and the very real possibility of being hanged by a kangaroo court, Jefferson Davis drew strength during his postbellum imprisonment from a certain slender little volume that was once renowned throughout Christendom – the The Imitation of Christ.  The Imitation…
Jerry Salyer
January 30, 2019