"The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is" : Unionism and emancipation in Civil War era Kentucky."

For Union, for Confederacy, for slavery : motivation for enlisting & serving among Kentucky's Civil War soldiers.

“…"l Coulter based his observations on the comments of Kentuckians at the time as well as the supposition that the richer the fields, the greater the need for slavery, which gave those men in Bluegrass and southwest greater incentive to be sympathetic with the South. 2 To some degree, later research has supported Coulter's theory. In "Where were the Kentucky Unionists and Most of all, Bearman argues, evangelical religion in the Jackson Purchase argued for a Southern pro-slavery theology, maintaining slavery was a good and just institution.…”