Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State

by Anne E. Marshall

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469609835
• ISBN13: 9781469609836
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"