Kentucky in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Kentucky in the American Civil War


00:02:02 1 Antebellum Kentucky
00:06:01 2 War breaks out
00:09:03 2.1 Elections of 1861
00:11:23 3 Neutrality violated
00:13:54 4 Confederate state government
00:15:54 5 Confederate line broken
00:16:18 5.1 Battle of Mill Springs
00:17:24 5.2 Forts Henry and Donelson
00:19:15 5.3 Confederate withdrawal
00:19:53 6 Morgan's first raids
00:21:36 7 Smith and Bragg advance
00:22:55 7.1 Battle of Richmond
00:24:18 7.2 Battle of Munfordville
00:26:44 7.3 Inauguration of Governor Hawes
00:29:10 7.4 Battle of Perryville
00:31:33 8 Morgan strikes again
00:32:25 8.1 The Christmas Raid
00:34:14 8.2 Morgan crosses the Ohio
00:37:24 9 Forrest raids Paducah
00:39:38 10 1864–1865: Military rule
00:40:40 11 Order of battle for Union forces in Kentucky
00:41:10 11.1 1862–1863
00:42:04 11.2 1863–1864
00:42:54 11.3 1864–1865
00:43:19 12 See also



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Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln recognized the importance of the Commonwealth when, in a September 1861 letter to Orville Browning, he wrote:

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we cannot hold Missouri, nor Maryland. These all against us, and the job on our hands is too large for us. We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this capitol.
Kentucky, being a border state, was among the chief places where the "Brother against brother" scenario was prevalent. Kentucky officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance. After early 1862 Kentucky came largely under Union control.
Kentucky was the site of several fierce battles, including Mill Springs and Perryville. It was host to such military leaders as Ulysses S. Grant on the Union side, who first encountered serious Confederate gunfire coming from Columbus, Kentucky, and Confederate cavalry leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest proved to be a scourge to the Union Army in western Kentucky, even making an attack on Paducah. Kentuckian John Hunt Morgan further challenged Union control, as he conducted numerous cavalry raids through the state.
Kentucky was the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd, and his southern counterpart, Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
In the historiography of the Civil War, Kentucky is treated primarily as a border state, with special attention to the social divisions during the secession crisis, invasions and raids, internal violence, sporadic guerrilla warfare, federal-state relations, the ending of slavery, and the return of Confederate veterans.35,000 Kentuckians served as Confederate soldiers; an estimated 125,000 Kentuckians served as Union soldiers.