(May 16, 2017 at 4:00 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: If the civil war was all about slavery, or slavery was the primary issue, why did Kentucky (a slave state) fight on the side of the north? Why did they in general, even regardless of that issue?
When the war broke out the state of Kentucky declared itself neutral. Correctly fearing that joining one side or the other would, as happened in Virginia, make the state a battleground. In September, 1861 Confederate general, Gideon Pillow, entered Kentucky to forestall what he saw as a Union move into the state. As a result of the Confederates being the first to violate Kentucky's 'neutrality' the state officially sided with the union.
Nonetheless, there were Kentucky regiments in both armies.
