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Creating a confederate Kentucky: The lost cause and Civil War memory in a border state (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2010) Penn, William A., Kentucky Rebel Town: Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016) Preston, John David. The Civil War in the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky (Gateway ...
Perhaps the best explanation at that time was that the people of Kentucky desired peace and thought that the election of the union candidates was the best way to get it. [15] With secession no longer considered a viable option, the pro-Confederate forces became the strongest supporters for neutrality.
The Private War of Lizzie Hardin: A Kentucky Confederate Girl's Diary of the Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia (Kentucky Historical Society, 1963) Peter, Frances Dallam. A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: The Diary of Frances Peter (University Press of Kentucky, 2015) Reinhart, Joseph R., ed.
The first seven became states in February and March 1861 upon agreeing to the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States, and each joined the permanent Confederation of states between March 12 and April 22, 1861, upon ratifying the Constitution of the Confederate States, its permanent constitution (a separate table is included below ...
Jan. 1, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln announces the Emancipation Proclamation, which frees all enslaved people in the rebellious states of the Confederacy. It does not apply to Kentucky, which ...
The Confederacy recognized the pro-Confederate claimants in Kentucky (December 10, 1861) and Missouri (November 28, 1861) and laid claim to those states, granting them Congressional representation and adding two stars to the Confederate flag. Voting for the representatives was mostly done by Confederate soldiers from Kentucky and Missouri. [53]
Trump was projected to repeat his dominance in Kentucky in 2024. Kentucky became the first state the Associated Press called in the 2020 General Election when the organization declared Trump the ...
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...