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

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Contents Acknowledgments  ·  xi   Introduction  ·  1    1     a marked change in the sentiments of the people Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation in Kentucky, 1792–1865  ·  9    2     the rebel spirit in kentucky The Politics of Readjustment, 1865–1877  ·  32    3     wicked and lawless men Violence and Confederate Identity, 1865–1885  ·  55    4     what shall be the moral to your kentuckians? Civil War Memorial Activity in the Commonwealth, 1865–1895  ·  81    5     two kentuckys Civil War Identity in Appalachian Kentucky, 1865–1915  ·  111    6     a place full of colored people, pretty girls, and polite men Literature, Confederate Identity, and Kentucky’s Reputation, 1890–1915  ·  133    7     a manifest aversion to the union cause War Memory in Kentucky, 1895–1935  ·  155 Afterword  ·  183   Notes  ·  189   Bibliography  ·  209   Index  ·  225 Illustrations Scene from “Confedrit X Roads”  ·  50 Henry Watterson, as portrayed in Harper’s Weekly  ·  74 State seal of Kentucky as revised after Goebel assassination, 1900  ·  135 Annie Fellows Johnston and Hattie Cochran  ·  139 Photograph of Rebecca Porter, model for Annie Fellows Johnston’s Mom Beck  ·  142 Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Nelse Hatton,” in Folks from Dixie  ·  152 John Hunt Morgan monument unveiling, Lexington, 1911  ·  173 Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace cabin, Louisville, 1906  ·  178 Monument to African American refugees, Camp Nelson, Kentucky  ·  186 This page intentionally left blank ...