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Creating a Confederate Kentucky : the lost cause and Civil War memory in a border state / Anne E. Marshall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth), 1975-
- Series:
- Civil War America.
- Civil War America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory--Kentucky.
- Collective memory.
- Memory--Social aspects--Kentucky.
- Memory.
- Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Kentucky.
- Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Historian E. Merton Coulter famously said that Kentucky ""waited until after the war was over to secede from the Union."" In this fresh study, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925 that belied the fact that Kentucky never left the Union and that more Kentuckians fought for the North than for the South. Following the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties, embracing the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with formerly Confederate states. Although, on the surface, whi
- Contents:
- A marked change in the sentiments of the people : slavery, Civil War, and emancipation in Kentucky, 1792-1865
- The rebel spirit in Kentucky : the politics of readjustment, 1865-1877
- Wicked and lawless men : violence and Confederate identity, 1865-1885
- What shall be the moral to young Kentuckians? Civil War memorial activity in the commonwealth, 1865-1895
- Two Kentuckys : Civil War identity in Appalachian Kentucky, 1865-1915
- A place full of colored people, pretty girls, and polite men : literature, Confederate identity, and Kentucky's reputation, 1890-1915
- A manifest aversion to the Union cause : war memory in Kentucky, 1895-1935.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908817-3-1
- 979-88-9313-268-7
- 1-4696-0383-7
- 0-8078-9936-4
- OCLC:
- 676698360
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