Kentucky Confederates : Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase / Berry Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Berry.

Series:

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Kentucky.

Jackson Purchase (Ky.)--History--19th century.

Jackson Purchase (Ky.).

Local Subjects:

Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Kentucky's South Carolina

Armies on the border

The Mayfield Convention

Flag snatching and gun grabbing

Politics, pirates, and more purchase perfidy

"Abolition invaders" and rebel deliverers

Gibraltar crumbles

Yankee occupation

Traitors beware

The Battle of Paducah

Still disloyal

A Paine in the purchase

Rebel to the end and beyond.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780813174396

0813174392

9780813151441

0813151449

9780813146935

0813146933

OCLC:

888348671