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

by Anne E. Marshall

Book Overview

In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925, belying the fact that Kentucky never left the Union. After the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties and embraced the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with former Confederate states. Marshall looks beyond postwar political and economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469609835
• ISBN13: 9781469609836
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"