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In the historiography of the Civil War, Kentucky is treated primarily as a southern border state, with special attention to the social divisions during the secession crisis, invasions and raids, internal violence, sporadic guerrilla warfare, federal-state relations, the ending of slavery, and the return of Confederate veterans. [1]
After staking their initial claim, Union soldiers came down from Cincinnati to take control of northern Kentucky, while Confederates moved in through Tennessee to claim southern Kentucky, including the Cumberland Gap situated near the convergence of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.
Kentucky - Civil War, Reconstruction, Unionism: During the war Kentucky was a state divided. Officially, it had sought to avoid war by continuing Clay’s tradition of compromise (which Clay again exercised through his involvement with the Compromise of 1850).
Tour Kentucky Civil War battle sites & museums. View reenactments, trails, interactive educational parks, and dedicated memorials in The Kentucky Wildlands.
KENTUCKY--10th Cavalry (2d Battalion); 14th (1 Co. Mounted) and 39th Mounted Infantry. OHIO-- McLaughlin's Squadron Cavalry. Union loss, 1 killed, 22 wounded, 6 missing.
The beginning of the Civil War, at Fort Sumter, on April 12, 1861, caused many Kentuckians great anxiety, over the state’s role in the conflict. In response to President Lincoln’s April 15 th call for 75,000 90-day troops to suppress the rebellion, Governor Beriah Magoffin refused, as Kentucky would furnish no troops “for the wicked ...
During the war, many battles and guerilla campaigns were fought in Kentucky. Kentucky soldiers served in both the Union and Confederate armies. [1] Most units were numbered, however, some were named. See the table below for lists of the regiments, battalions, batteries, and unassigned companies.
The Confederate Heartland Offensive (August 14 – October 10, 1862), also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under ...
Historian Kent Masterson Brown describes the battles and efforts undertaken by the Confederacy in its failed attempt to secure the State of Kentucky during the Civil War. This article first appeared in CWPT's Hallowed Ground magazine.
April 12, 1861 • Confederate forces attack a Federal fort outside Charleston, South Carolina, at the Battle of Fort Sumter, beginning the American Civil War. May 10, 1861 • Confederate engineers begin construction of Fort Donelson only twelve miles south of the Kentucky line near Dover, Tennessee.