Kentucky Confederates: Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813146928)

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 commonw

Author: Berry Craig
ISBN-10: 0813146925
ISBN-13: 9780813146928
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2014
Pages: 390
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2015 pg. 1042

About the Author

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.