Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State by Allardice, Bruce S.

Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813124759)

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Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State by Allardice, Bruce S.

Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State

$40.00
Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State by Allardice, Bruce S.

Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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Perhaps more than any other citizens of the nation, Kentuckians held conflicted loyalties during the American Civil War. As a border state, Kentucky was largely pro-slavery but had an economy tied as much to the North as to the South. State government officials tried to keep Kentucky neutral, hoping to play a lead role in compromise efforts between the Union and the Confederacy, but that stance failed to satisfy supporters of both sides, all of whom considered the state's backing crucial to vict

Author: Bruce S. Allardice
ISBN-10: 0813124751
ISBN-13: 9780813124759
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2008
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.10d
By Bruce S. Allardice
By Bruce S. Allardice
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Bruce S. Allardice is past president of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago and the author of More Generals in Gray.

Lawrence Lee Hewitt is a former professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi and Louisianians in the Civil War.

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