[BroJoeK]

"Kentucky was a Southern State. I just didn't secede."

Kentucky was certainly a slave-state, but the vast majority of Kentuckians were Unionists.
Regardless of what deluded pretenders in Richmond, VA, imagined, most Kentuckians were not Confederates.

[DiogenesLamp]

Kentucky was certainly a slave-state, but the vast majority of Kentuckians were Unionists. Regardless of what deluded pretenders in Richmond, VA, imagined, most Kentuckians were not Confederates.

Well especially after the Union troops showed up and told them how they ought to think. Same thing in Missouri.

Even so, it's my understanding that Kentucky had a lot of men go fight for the Confederacy.

I think Maryland would have done as well. In fact I think a lot of men in different states were discouraged from going over to the Southern government by the presence of Union troops.

Lincoln may not have respected certain principles, but he was no fool.

[higgmeister]

Kentucky was certainly a slave-state, but the vast majority of Kentuckians were Unionists. Regardless of what deluded pretenders in Richmond, VA, imagined, most Kentuckians were not Confederates.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_Confederate_Civil_War_units

Infantry

• 1st Infantry Regiment
• 2nd Infantry Regiment
• 3rd Infantry Regiment
• 4th Infantry Regiment
• 5th Infantry Regiment
• 6th Infantry Regiment
• 7th Infantry Regiment
• 8th Infantry Regiment
• 9th Infantry Regiment (Hunt's 5th Infantry Regiment)
• 1st (Taylor's) Infantry Battalion
• Duncan's (Desha's) Infantry Battalion
• Ficklin's Battalion, Infantry
• Kirkpatrick's Battalion
• White's Infantry Battalion
• Corbin's (Captain) Men

Cavalry

• 1st Cavalry Regiment (1st (3rd) Cavalry)
• 2nd (Duke's) Cavalry Regiment
• 2nd (Woodward's) Cavalry Regiment
• 3rd (Butler's) Cavalry Regiment
• 3rd (Tucker's) Cavalry Regiment
• 3rd & 7th (Consolidated) Cavalry
• 4th Cavalry Regiment
• 5th Cavalry Regiment
• 6th Cavalry Regiment
• 7th Cavalry Regiment ("3rd Cavalry Regiment")
• 8th Cavalry Regiment
• 8th and 12th (Consolidated) Cavalry
• 9th Cavalry Regiment ("4th Mounted Rifles Regiment")
• 10th Cavalry Regiment, Partisan ("10th Cavalry Regiment")
• 10th (Diamond's) Cavalry Regiment
• 10th (Johnson's) Cavalry Regiment
• 10th Cavalry Regiment
• 11th Cavalry Regiment ("7th (Chenault's) Cavalry Regiment")
• 11th (Hollis') Cavalry Regiment
• 12th Cavalry Regiment ("1st Kentucky and Tennessee Mounted Rifles")
• 13th Cavalry Regiment ("10th Mounted Rifles," "10th Infantry Regiment," "10th Cavalry Battalion," "10th Mounted Rifles," "11th Mounted Rifles," or "11th Mounted Infantry Regiment")
• 13th (Sypert's) Cavalry Regiment
• 14th Cavalry Regiment ("10th (May's) Cavalry Regiment")
• 14th (Richard C. Morgan's) Cavalry Regiment
• 15th Cavalry Regiment ("2nd (Woodward's) Cavalry Regiment")
• 16th (Chenowith's) Cavalry Regiment
• 1st Cavalry Battalion
• 1st (King's) Cavalry Battalion
• 1st Special Cavalry Battalion
• 2nd Cavalry Battalion
• 2nd Special Cavalry Battalion
• 3rd Cavalry Battalion - failed to complete organization
• 3rd Special Cavalry Battalion
• 4th Special Cavalry Battalion
• 9th (Breckinridge's) Cavalry Battalion
• Stoner's Cavalry Battalion
• Buckner Guards, Cavalry
• Morgan's Cavalry Squadron
• Bolen's (Captain) Independent Company, Cavalry
• Dudley's (Captain) Independent Cavalry
• Jenkins' (Captain) Company, Cavalry

Mounted Rifles

• 1st Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles
• 2nd Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles
• 2nd Cavalry, Mounted Infantry
• 3rd Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles ("1st Kentucky Mounted Rifles")
• 3rd Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles ("Jessee's")
• Caudill's Army
• May's Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles
• Morris' Cavalry Regiment, Mounted Rifles

Mounted Infantry

• 3rd Mounted Infantry
• 4th Mounted Infantry
• 5th Mounted Infantry
• 6th Mounted Infantry
• 7th Mounted Infantry
• 8th Mounted Infantry
• 9th Mounted Infantry

Partisan Rangers

• Morehead's Regiment (Partisan Rangers)
• Patton's Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers
• Field's (Captain) Company (Partisan Rangers)
• Rowan's (Captain) Company (Partisan Rangers)

Horse Artillery

• Byrne's (Captain) Company, Horse Artillery

• 1st Kentucky Artillery (Lyon's Artillery Battery or Cobb's Artillery Battery)
• Bell's Artillery Battery
• Byrne's Artillery Battery
• Cumberland Artillery Battery (Cpt Henry D. Green later Cpt. W. H. Hedden)
• Graves' Battery
• Harris'-Arnett's-Corbett's Artillery Battery
• Issaquena Artillery Battery
• Williams' Artillery Battery

Brigades

• First Kentucky Brigade (Orphan Brigade)

Its original commander was John C. Breckinridge, former United States Vice President and candidate for president, who was enormously popular with Kentuckians.