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Notes abbreviations GAR Grand Army of the Republic HL-BC Hutchins Library, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky KHC Kentucky Heritage Council, Frankfort KHS Martin F. Schmidt Archives and Research Library, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort SC-FHS Special Collections, Filson Historical Society, Louisville SC-KSU Paul G. Blazer Library, Special Collections, Kentucky State University, Frankfort SC-UK Margaret I. King Library, Special Collections, University of Kentucky, Lexington SHC-UNC Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill UDC United Daughters of the Confederacy introduction 1. Henry Watterson, “Address of Welcome to Be Delivered to the Grand Army of the Republic on Behalf of the City of Louisville,” Henry Watterson Papers, SC-FHS. 2. Military figures from Harrison and Klotter, New History of Kentucky, 195, 265. Deriving accurate enlistment numbers for white Kentuckians is difficult, given that many left the state to enlist in the northern and the southern armies during the period in which the state remained officially neutral. 3. Ibid. See information on governors Preston Leslie, James B. McCreary, Luke Blackburn , and Simon Bolivar Buckner, in ibid., 241, 245–46, 257, 260, 262–63, 447–48. 4. Coulter, Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky, 439; Webb, “Kentucky: Pariah among the Elect,” 105, 110–11, 145; Webb, Kentucky in the Reconstruction Era, 92–93. 5. Connelly, “Neo-Confederatism or Power Vacuum,” 268–69. 6. Ibid., 258; Flannery, “Kentucky History Revisited,” 27; Coulter, Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky, 410. 7. My thinking about “political culture” is informed by Lynn Hunt, who breaks down distinctions between politics and culture in her study of the French Revolution, arguing that cultural practices such as symbols, rituals, rhetoric, and festivals did not merely reflect politics but constituted politics. She defines political culture as “the values, expectations , and implicit rules that expressed and shaped collective intentions and actions.” Hunt, Politics, Culture, 10–11. 8. Warren, Legacy of the Civil War, 60. 9. Brundage, Where These Memories Grow, 5. 10. Blight, Race and Reunion, 4. chapter one 1. Maria Southgate Hawes Reminiscences, 26, SHC-UNC. 2. Casualty figures in Harrison and Klotter, New History of Kentucky, 215; and Duke, Civil War Reminiscences, 400. 3. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, 29–37. 4. Harrison and Klotter, New History of Kentucky, 168–69; Aron, How the West Was Lost, 89–95. 5. For a full discussion of the debate over slavery in early Kentucky, see Aron, How the West Was Lost, 93–101. 6. Dunaway, “Put in Master’s Pocket,” 116–30. 7. Harrison and Klotter, New History of Kentucky, 135; Edward Conrad Smith, Borderland , 28–29. See a cogent refutation of this notion in Tallant, Evil Necessity, 62–64. 8. Harrison and Klotter, New History of Kentucky, 168; U.S. Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of Agriculture, 1860, 228–29; Coulter, Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky , 7–8; Jewett and Allen, Slavery in the South, 99, 104. 9. T. D. Clark, “Slave Trade between Kentucky and the Cotton Kingdom,” 331–32; Coleman, “Lexington’s Slave Dealers,” 1–2. 10. T. D. Clark, “Slave Trade between Kentucky and the Cotton Kingdom,” 337, 341–42; Freehling, The South vs. the South, 20, 27; Jewett and Allen, Slavery in the South, 113. 11. Turner, “Abolitionism in Kentucky,” 334, 338. 12. Breckinridge quoted in Howard, “Robert J. Breckinridge,” 332; Lexington Observer and Reporter, December 16, 1848; Free South quoted in Turner, “Abolitionism in Kentucky ,” 338. 13. Tallant, Evil Necessity, 4–7; Marion B. Lucas, From Slavery to Segregation, 108; Jewett and Allen, Slavery in the South, 98; Coulter, Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky , 197. 14. Tapp, “Slavery Controversy,” 162, 165; Tallant, Evil Necessity, 12. 15. Blight, Race and Reunion, 235; Coleman, “Mrs. Stowe, Kentucky, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 4–5. 16. Stowe elaborated on this notion when she wrote: “The general prevalence of agricultural pursuits of a quiet and gradual nature, not requiring those periodic seasons of hurry and pressure that are called for in the business of more southern districts, makes the task of the Negro a more healthful and reasonable one; while the master, content with a more gradual style of acquisition, has not those temptations to hardheartedness which always overcome frail human nature when the prospect of sudden and rapid gain is weighed in the balance, with no heavier counterpoise than the interests of the helpless and unprotected.” Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 8–9. 17. Saunders and Root, “My Old Kentucky Home,” 235–39. 18. Edward Conrad Smith, Borderland, 64–65...
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