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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785335703321

Autore

Marshall Anne E (Anne Elizabeth), <1975->

Titolo

Creating a Confederate Kentucky [[electronic resource] ] : the lost cause and Civil War memory in a border state / / Anne E. Marshall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0383-7

0-8078-9936-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Civil War America

Disciplina

976.9/03

Soggetti

Collective memory - Kentucky

Memory - Social aspects - Kentucky

Kentucky History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

Kentucky History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A marked change in the sentiments of the people : slavery, Civil War, and emancipation in Kentucky, 1792-1865 -- The rebel spirit in Kentucky : the politics of readjustment, 1865-1877 -- Wicked and lawless men : violence and Confederate identity, 1865-1885 -- What shall be the moral to young Kentuckians? Civil War memorial activity in the commonwealth, 1865-1895 -- Two Kentuckys : Civil War identity in Appalachian Kentucky, 1865-1915 -- A place full of colored people, pretty girls, and polite men : literature, Confederate identity, and Kentucky's reputation, 1890-1915 -- A manifest aversion to the Union cause : war memory in Kentucky, 1895-1935.

Sommario/riassunto

Historian E. Merton Coulter famously said that Kentucky ""waited until after the war was over to secede from the Union."" In this fresh study, Anne E. Marshall 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. Although, on the surface, whi