I was born in Paducah, and grew up in Carlisle county. My ancestors were in the confederate 3rd KY Co. M and 4th KY (the company in the 4th escapes my memory at the moment but I want to say D.) It’s nice to hear more about the war in Kentucky, thank you.
I love this! I’m also from Owensboro and Daviess County. Owensboro is in such a unique position in the state where as a kid (I’m 23) we always had a unique identity. And what I mean by this is, yes we are in kentucky and we identify as a Kentuckian, but we never really felt like it. Kentucky as a whole is really set up into 3 states, western kentucky, central and eastern. In terms of “allegiance”, western ky is the only of the 3 where “we” felt an allegiance to the confederacy, I mean shoot the headquarters of the terrorist organization of the KKK is located in Dawson springs and the monument to Jefferson Daviess (yes this is a real thing, and it’s a big ass obelisk in the middle of BFE in Todd County.) located in western Ky. That’s allegiance obviously changed over the 150 years since then lol. But in terms of geography western kentucky is very flat. Very agrarian and very different from central and eastern kentucky. I wish there were more sources of information regarding the civil war in western kentucky because (I’m speaking for myself and would like to imagine it’s a shared sentiment) when learning about the civil war growing up most of the information we learned for our area was taught to us by our grandparents. In school there might be a picture of the civil war sites in western kentucky on a single page and that’s it. I mean I remember my dad telling me the neighborhood he lived in as a child was VERY HAUNTED. And 1-2 houses had marked gravestones of civil war soldiers, no telling how many were unmarked. And him and my grandmother both confirm this story. That apparently there was a field (now a bunch of Jagoe houses are being built there.) like right across from his old neighborhood were a “major” battle was held. But there’s no recording of it on any map.
We’ve done more podcast on WKY and the Civil War. Derrick knows a lot about the Civil War in the area. Got an episode about Muhlenberg too. I’ve seen the Davis monument too. It is massive and unexpected when it shows up. We went out to Todd County to get a dog and all of a sudden there’s this huge monument out of know where. And you’re right there’s three parts of KY and they’re all different and awesome in their own way. That’s why KY rules! Thanks again for watching! More to come!
It is very interesting East Tennessee was prounionist majority area and as a mirror West Kentucky was proconfederate majority from Henderson county to Fulton county. The 19.5% slave (1860) populated Kentucky stayed in the Union in majority and the 24.8% slave populated Tenneessee joined the Confederacy in majority. The different is only 5% slaves and the effect was so big. In 1861 Lincoln's biggest success was the border states and mainly his (and his wife's) birth state Kentucky held beside the union. I think Henry Clay's (Lincoln's examplar) all USA view and posthumous effect was also so big in Kentucky that the majority of the Kentuckians persisted beside the Union and not only the less slave system economy alone had effect. Almost all border states and the future West Virginia were divided more or less, so
@@avenaoat Kentucky stayed in the union due to slavery. Read Divdied Loyalites by James Finick. Kentucky was much more pro-confederate than led on. In-fact, before the Frankfort government declared for union support, the enlistment was 6000 CSA vs 2000 USA.
@@threefiveseven These low slave populated border states could have hold into the Union So North SAmerica did not became semi colony for France and UK.
I’m a new subscriber, and am looking forward to reading the book on guerrilla warfare in Western Kentucky!
The book comes out in the next few months!
Crentten was in the fight at Saltville and 1864
I believe one of you mentioned Henry Clay Henry Clay was born of Virginia stock .
I was born in Paducah, and grew up in Carlisle county. My ancestors were in the confederate 3rd KY Co. M and 4th KY (the company in the 4th escapes my memory at the moment but I want to say D.)
It’s nice to hear more about the war in Kentucky, thank you.
You’re welcome! Kentucky was a big part of the war.
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Born ans raised So. Ohian here (on the Ohio River) and this podcast is great.
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Boys the Todd family, as in Mary Todd Lincoln, were one of the most prominent families in Lexington Ky, and pretty much the entire state.
I love this! I’m also from Owensboro and Daviess County.
Owensboro is in such a unique position in the state where as a kid (I’m 23) we always had a unique identity. And what I mean by this is, yes we are in kentucky and we identify as a Kentuckian, but we never really felt like it.
Kentucky as a whole is really set up into 3 states, western kentucky, central and eastern. In terms of “allegiance”, western ky is the only of the 3 where “we” felt an allegiance to the confederacy, I mean shoot the headquarters of the terrorist organization of the KKK is located in Dawson springs and the monument to Jefferson Daviess (yes this is a real thing, and it’s a big ass obelisk in the middle of BFE in Todd County.) located in western Ky.
That’s allegiance obviously changed over the 150 years since then lol. But in terms of geography western kentucky is very flat. Very agrarian and very different from central and eastern kentucky.
I wish there were more sources of information regarding the civil war in western kentucky because (I’m speaking for myself and would like to imagine it’s a shared sentiment) when learning about the civil war growing up most of the information we learned for our area was taught to us by our grandparents. In school there might be a picture of the civil war sites in western kentucky on a single page and that’s it.
I mean I remember my dad telling me the neighborhood he lived in as a child was VERY HAUNTED. And 1-2 houses had marked gravestones of civil war soldiers, no telling how many were unmarked. And him and my grandmother both confirm this story. That apparently there was a field (now a bunch of Jagoe houses are being built there.) like right across from his old neighborhood were a “major” battle was held. But there’s no recording of it on any map.
We’ve done more podcast on WKY and the Civil War. Derrick knows a lot about the Civil War in the area. Got an episode about Muhlenberg too.
I’ve seen the Davis monument too. It is massive and unexpected when it shows up. We went out to Todd County to get a dog and all of a sudden there’s this huge monument out of know where.
And you’re right there’s three parts of KY and they’re all different and awesome in their own way. That’s why KY rules!
Thanks again for watching! More to come!
@@KentuckyHistoryChannel watching the muhlenberg one rn!
It is very interesting East Tennessee was prounionist majority area and as a mirror West Kentucky was proconfederate majority from Henderson county to Fulton county. The 19.5% slave (1860) populated Kentucky stayed in the Union in majority and the 24.8% slave populated Tenneessee joined the Confederacy in majority. The different is only 5% slaves and the effect was so big. In 1861 Lincoln's biggest success was the border states and mainly his (and his wife's) birth state Kentucky held beside the union.
I think Henry Clay's (Lincoln's examplar) all USA view and posthumous effect was also so big in Kentucky that the majority of the Kentuckians persisted beside the Union and not only the less slave system economy alone had effect. Almost all border states and the future West Virginia were divided more or less, so
@@avenaoat Kentucky stayed in the union due to slavery. Read Divdied Loyalites by James Finick. Kentucky was much more pro-confederate than led on. In-fact, before the Frankfort government declared for union support, the enlistment was 6000 CSA vs 2000 USA.
@@threefiveseven These low slave populated border states could have hold into the Union So North SAmerica did not became semi colony for France and UK.