“There had been a request to both sides that they stay out of Kentucky.”
And who made that authority? Magoffin.
Again - Kentucky, at the start of the war was not Union territory. This is why Grant occupied Paducah and violated Kentucky’s neutrality.
Nope. It was a resolution passed by the state legislature.
Again - Kentucky, at the start of the war was not Union territory
Sorry, but you saying it over and over again doesn't make it so. There was never any vote by the state legislature, a convention, or the people to secede.
This is why Grant occupied Paducah and violated Kentucky’s neutrality.
Grant moved troops into Paducah to keep it from falling into the hands of the confederates, who had invaded three days earlier. Or does their violation of Kentucky neutrality somehow not count?
It certainly counted to the state legislature, since they immediately ordered the US flag to be raised above the state capitol.
Of course Kentucky was a US state, and thus Union territory.
They had no authority to secede absent consent by the rest of the US, winning a SCOTUS case, or a constitutional amendment.
Therefore their directions to stay out of Kentucky had no merit, just as the pretended orders by SC to the US government to evacuate Ft Sumter had no merit.