Kentucky Confederates (eBook)

Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase

Berry Craig (Autor)

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2014
390 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-4693-5 (ISBN)

Infos

During the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase -- bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east -- fought hard for separation and secession, and produced eight times more Confederates than Union soldiers. Supporting states' rights and slavery, these eight counties in the westernmost part of the commonwealth were so pro-Confederate that the Purchase was dubbed "e;the South Carolina of Kentucky."e;The first dedicated study of this key region, Kentucky Confederates provides valuable insights into a misunderstood and understudied part of Civil War history. Author Berry Craig begins by exploring the development of the Purchase from 1818, when Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby acquired it from the Chickasaw tribe. Geographically isolated from the rest of the Bluegrass State, the area's early settlers came from the South, and rail and river trade linked the region to Memphis and western Tennessee rather than to points north and east.Craig draws from an impressive array of primary documents, including newspapers, letters, and diaries, to reveal the regional and national impact this unique territory had on the nation's greatest conflict. Offering an important new perspective on this rebellious borderland and its failed bid for secession, Kentucky Confederates will serve as the standard text on the subject for years to come.

Autor

lt;P>Berry Craig, professor of history at West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah, is the author of Hidden History of Western Kentucky, True Tales of Old-Time Kentucky Politics: Bombast, Bourbon, and Burgoo, Hidden History of Kentucky in the Civil War, and Hidden History of Kentucky Soldiers.

Inhalt

IntroductionKentucky's South CarolinaArmies on the BorderThe Mayfield ConventionFlag Snatching and Gun GrabbingPolitics, Pirates, and More Purchase Perfidy"Abolition Invaders" and Rebel DeliverersGibraltar CrumblesYankee OccupationTraitors BewareThe Battle of PaducahStill DisloyalA Paine in the PurchaseRebel to the End and Beyond

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 32 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: abolition invaders • American Civil War • Andrew Jackson • archival documents • bluegrass state • borderland • chickasaw tribe • Civil War • civil war border states • Civil War Period • Commonwealth • Confederate • confederate soldiers • conflict • Diaries • Epistolary • henry clay • Intrastate Conflict • isaac shelby • Jackson Purchase • kentuckians • Kentucky • Letters • mayfield convention • Memphis • military alliance • military history • Mississippi River • Native Americans • Newspapers • ohio river • Political • primary documents • rail trade • rebels • regional impact • Secession • Separation • settlers • Slavery • Social • "South Carolina of Kentucky" • southern • states rights • Tennessee River • Union • United States history • western kentucky history • Yankees
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-4693-3 / 0813146933
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-4693-5 / 9780813146935