Former Vice President (and Presidential candidate) John Breckinridge, a US Senator, escaped out his back door as the authorities came in the front. Fleeing south, he offered his services to the Confederacy, becoming one of their more effective field commanders, rising to the rank of Lieutenant General before accepting the position of Secretary of War.
But Breckinridge was from Kentucky. Don’t we have the word of several Neo=Confederates that people only thought about their citizenship as being connected with theit state?
Why didn’t the confederates send Breckinridge back?