More American Than Southern: Kentucky, Slavery, and the War for an American Ideology, 1828-1861

by Gary Robert Matthews

When Fort Sumter fell to Confederate troops in April 1861, most states quickly declared their allegiances to the North or South. Kentucky, however, assumed an antiwar posture that outlasted Fort Sumter by five months, begrudgingly joining the Union cause only when Confederate troops marched into the state and seized the town of Columbus. With its hesitancy to make an immediate commitment and faced with the conflicting sentiments of its people, Kentucky...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621900576
• ISBN13: 9781621900573
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"