Favorite Sons of Civil War Kentucky
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781625859938
Subjects: Soldiers; Kentucky, history; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865
Description: "When the Civil War broke out, thousands of Kentuckians struggled to maintain the state's neutrality in deciding which side to support. Although Kentucky was a slaveholding state, most of the population did not wish to secede from the Union. More than 140,000 Kentucky solders fought on both sides, in the Eastern and Western Theaters. Some of those who emerged from these battlegrounds are among the state's favorite local heroes. Join historian and author Bryan S. Bush as he recounts the journeys of these brave men who fought to build and maintain the legacy of the Bluegrass State."