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Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War.It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
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Map of the Confederate States with names and borders of states A Confederate state was a U.S. state that declared secession and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The Confederacy recognized them as constituent entities that shared their sovereignty with the Confederate government. Confederates were recognized as citizens of both the federal republic and of ...
See New Orleans in the American Civil War: 2. Charleston, South Carolina 40,522 22 1865 See Charleston in the American Civil War: 3. Richmond, Virginia 37,910 25 1865 See Richmond in the American Civil War: 4. Mobile, Alabama 29,258 27 1865 5. Memphis, Tennessee 22,623 38 1862 6. Savannah, Georgia 22,619 41 1864 7. Petersburg, Virginia 18,266 ...
Unshaded areas were not states before or during the Civil War. Historical military map of the border and southern states by Phelps & Watson, 1866. In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union.
The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State (Da Capo Press, 2007) Coulter, Ellis Merton. The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky (1926), A major scholarly survey; Dollar, Kent, ed. Sister States, Enemy States: The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee (University Press of Kentucky, 2009) Harrison, Lowell.
The episode will focus on the events of Jan. 25, 1865, when 22 Civil War soldiers were ambushed by outlaws and killed, while 20 more were injured, during a cattle drive to Louisville.
Kentucky's geographic location as a border southern state in the Upper South, is cited as a large reason why the state decided to remain neutral during the American Civil War. Standing directly between the Union States and the Confederate States with Kentucky being in the Border South, Kentucky inhabitants were influenced greatly from both sides.