The Confederate government of Kentucky was a self-constituted group of Confederate sympathizers during the American Civil War. Kentucky was admitted to the Confederacy on December 10, 1861. Bowling Green, Kentucky, was designated the Confederate capital of Kentucky at a convention in nearby Russellville. The provisional government was exiled and traveled with the Army of Tennessee for most of its existence. The government existed primarily on paper and was dissolved at the end of the war.
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The Confederate government of Kentucky was a self-constituted group of Confederate sympathizers during the American Civil War. Kentucky was admitted to the Confederacy on December 10, 1861. Bowling Green, Kentucky, was designated the Confederate capital of Kentucky at a convention in nearby Russellville. The provisional government was exiled and traveled with the Army of Tennessee for most of its existence. For a short time in the autumn of 1862, the Confederate Army controlled Frankfort, the only time a Union capital was captured by Confederate forces. The government existed primarily on paper and was dissolved at the end of the war. The state had strong economic ties with Ohio River cities such as Pittsburgh and Cincinnati while at the same time sharing many cultural, social, and economic links with the South. With economic ties to both the North and the South, Kentucky had little to gain and much to lose from a war between the states. Many slaveholders felt that the best protection for slavery was within the Union. The majority of Kentucky’s citizens believed the state should be a mediator between the South and the North. The Unionists, on the other hand, were unwilling to surrender the fate of the state to a convention that might adopt the extreme remedy of secession. The U.S. President sent a telegram to Kentucky Governor Beriah Magoffin requesting that the Commonwealth supply four regiments as its share of the overall request of 75,000 troops for the war on May 7, 1862.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky passed the declaration of war and passed the Declaration of Cessation of the Rights of the Confederate States of America on May 8, 1862, on a vote of the Commonwealth’s General Assembly. On May 9, 1861, President Lincoln, a Confederate sympathizer, replied, \”President Lincoln, I will not send a man nor a dollar for the purpose of subduing my sister Southern states for the purpose of subduing the wicked Southern states.’’ Kentucky was represented by the 13th star on the Confederate battle flag. The Confederate flag was flown at the Battle of Shiloh on May 14, 1863, as a symbol of the Confederacy’s support for the Confederacy. The flag was later replaced by the Union flag. In 1864, Kentucky was the last state to join the Confederacy; it was the only state to do so after the war ended in 1865. It was the final state to become part of the confederacy, and it became known as the Confederate State of Kentucky. The Confederacy was the first state to recognize the right of the states to secede from the Union in 1864. It also became the first Confederate state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, which was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on March 4, 1864; the state was also the first to recognize slavery as a constitutional right in 1866. The first Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, was born in Kentucky in 1858; he died in 1869; his son, Jefferson Jefferson Jr., served as the state’s governor from 1864 to 1869.
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