Creating a Confederate Kentucky: the lost cause and Civil War memory in a border state (1st edition.)

This study traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925 that belied the fact that Kentucky never left the Union and that more Kentuckians fought for the North than for the South.

Following the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties, embracing the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with formerly Confederate states.

Marshall looks over the longer term at Kentuckians' activities by which they commemorated the Civil War and fixed the state's remembrance of it for sixty years following the conflict.