The war between South and North has been waging for almost five months. Kentucky is now aligned with the Union, following Confederate incursions in the state a few days earlier, a move that violated the state’s (then) neutrality. Nonetheless, much Confederate sentiment remains within the Bluegrass state during the war. Virginia, likewise, harbors divided loyalties.…
The Long Run Baptist Association of Kentucky meets today. The war is upon the minds of the Baptists gathered. Kentucky Baptist historian John H. Spencer, born in 1826 and now at the prime of his preaching career, recalls the meeting: On the 6th of that month [September, 1861] I went to the meeting of Long…
Wayne County, Kentucky, is deeply conflicted. Economically tied to the North and having familial connections with the South, Kentucky families and neighbors in this land in which slavery is much less central than in the Deep South are divided, with emotions running high. The rapid unraveling of harmony is now on intense display in Wayne…