To: Bull Snipe; DiogenesLamp
Bull Snipe:
"During the War, Kentucky provided 44 infantry regiments, 17 cavalry regiments and 5 artillery batteries to the Union Army.
The state provided 9 infantry regiment, 16 cavalry regiments and 8 artillery batteries to the Confederate Army" The ratio of Union to Confederate soldiers from Kentucky was over three to one:
"35,000 Kentuckians served as Confederate soldiers; an estimated 125,000 Kentuckians served as Union soldiers.[3] Approximately 24,000 Black Kentuckians, free and enslaved, served as Union soldiers.[4][5]"
350 posted on
08/02/2022 9:17:39 AM PDT by
BroJoeK
(future DDG 134 -- we remember)
To: BroJoeK
The ratio of Union to Confederate soldiers from Kentucky was over three to one: How many Irish soldiers served the Union?
More importantly, Why?
Likely the same thing with Kentucky.
354 posted on
08/02/2022 10:16:58 AM PDT by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: BroJoeK
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