[donmeaker]

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.

[JCBreckenridge]

Not at the start of the war it wasn’t.