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Creating a Confederate Kentucky : The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State /

The author traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925 that belied the fact that Kentucky never left the Union and that more Kentuckians fought for the North than for the South. Following the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loya...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marshall, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth), 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The author traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925 that belied the fact that Kentucky never left the Union and that more Kentuckians fought for the North than for the South. Following the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties, embracing the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with formerly Confederate states.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469603834