For Slavery and Union [electronic resource] : Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War /
Lewis, Patrick A.,1984-
Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for Southern independence. Defying the wishes of his Rebel fiancée and her powerful family -- yet still hoping to impress them with his resolve, independence, and courage -- Buckner joined the Twentieth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in 1861 as a Union soldier. President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclama
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Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for Southern independence. Defying the wishes of his Rebel fiancée and her powerful family -- yet still hoping to impress them with his resolve, independence, and courage -- Buckner joined the Twentieth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in 1861 as a Union soldier. President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclama
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: relationships, interests, and identities -- The world is a cruel and cold place -- Firstborn of the union -- Brave hearts and stout hands -- I feel impelled to pause -- Privileges and elections -- Democratic partisan militia -- Epilogue: Glen Avon.
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Buckner, Benjamin  Forsythe, 1836-1901.
United States. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865)
Slavery
Unionists (United States Civil War)