Kentucky Confederates: Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase
Berry Craig
Abstract
Dubbed “the South Carolina of Kentucky,” the Jackson Purchase was Kentucky's only pro-Confederate region during the Civil War. Secession sentiment was so strong that in 1861, while Kentucky was officially neutral, leading politicians and influential citizens met in Mayfield and considered a regional military alliance with Tennessee or secession from Kentucky to form a Confederate state with West Tennessee. In addition, the Purchase was Kentucky's only region that furnished more soldiers to the Confederacy army than to the Union forces. Between 1861 and 1865, nearly 5,000 Purchase men donned Re ... More
Keywords: Civil War, Confederate, Jackson Purchase, Kentucky, military alliance, secession, “South Carolina of Kentucky, ” Union
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813146928 |
| Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: May 2015 | DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813146928.001.0001 |
