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April 12, 1861
Confederates open fire on Fort
Sumter, at 4:30 a.m., commencing
the Civil War. Kentuckian Major
Robert Anderson surrenders the
garrison the next day
at 2:30 p.m.
December 20, 1860
South Carolina secedes from
the Union. In January 1861,
ten other states follow.
September 18, 1861
Kentucky’s Pro-Union legislature
calls for the expulsion of the
Confederates and gives command
of the state volunteers to now
General Robert Anderson, who won
his fame by defending Fort Sumter.
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Kentuckian Abraham Lincoln
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From Cumberland Gap in the
east to Columbus in the west,
fighting raged for control
of crucial mountain passes,
navigable rivers, and railroad
junctions. The war divided
Kentucky more tragically than
any other state; for Kentuckians,
it truly was a brothers’ war.
It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that
the Confederacy would have won the
war if it could have gained Kentucky,
and, conversely, that the Union’s success
in retaining Kentucky as a base for
invasions of the Confederate heartland
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And one of the war’s climactic
battles took place in the state, at
Perryville. Along with the battle
of Antietam in Maryland two
weeks earlier, Perryville represented
the failure of the Confederacy’s
two-pronged effort to gain the
support of these important border
states and to persuade European
powers, as well as the Lincoln
administration, to recognize the
Confederacy as an independent
nation that could not be conquered.
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Both sides in the American Civil
War considered Kentucky a key
to victory. Lincoln is reported to
have said that he hoped to have
God on his side, but he must
have Kentucky.
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February 9, 1861
Kentuckian Jefferson Davis is
elected as the first President
of the Confederate States
of America.
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September 6, 1861
Union troops under the
command of General
Grant move into Paducah
and Smithland.
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September 19, 1861
The first engagement of the war in
Kentucky occurs at Barbourville.
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October 21, 1861
To counter the Confederate
victory at Barbourville, federal
forces repel an attack on Wildcat
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August 29, 1862
The Confederate offensive into
Kentucky encounters Union troops
as they move north from Big Hill
to Richmond.
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November 18, 1861
Some 115 delegates from 68 counties
assemble in Russellville to establish
the Provisional Government of Kentucky,
and Bowling Green is designated as
the capital. Kentucky’s Confederate
government remains in exile during the
majority of the war.
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July 4, 1862
Confederate General John Hunt
Morgan leads 875 officers and
men westward from Knoxville on
his first major raid into Kentucky.
September 17, 1862
Confederate forces commanded
by General Robert E. Lee and
Union forces commanded by
George McClellan meet at
Antietam near Sharpsburg,
Maryland, in the single bloodiest
day of the war.
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October 8, 1862
Fighting north from the Cumberland Gap, as part of
the 1862 “Kentucky Campaign,” General E. Kirby Smith
controls much of central Kentucky. While General
Braxton Bragg, thwarted in his efforts to capture
Louisville by Union General Don Carlos Buell, moves
into central Kentucky to link the two armies. 18
September 22, 1862
President Abraham Lincoln
published the Emancipation
Proclamation.
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January 1, 1863
On this date, President
Lincoln enacts the
Emancipation Proclamation.
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December 22, 1862
General John Hunt Morgan
and 3,100 men cross the
Cumberland River. This highly
successful, 12-day adventure
became known as Morgan’s
“Christmas Raid.”
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November 8, 1864
President Abraham Lincoln is
reelected. His Vice President is
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee.
April 14, 1865
John Wilkes Booth mortally wounds
President Abraham Lincoln. He dies the
following morning and Andrew Johnson
is sworn in as the 17th President of the
United States.
April 9, 1865
General Robert E. Lee
surrenders the once great army
of Virginia to General Grant at
Appomattox Court House.
December 18, 1865
The Secretary of the State
announces the ratification of
the 13th Amendment to the
United States Constitution,
officially abolishing slavery.