Sister States, Enemy States

by Dollar, Kent T.; Whiteaker, Larry H.; Dickinson, W. Calvin; Matthews, Gary R. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780813125411
• ISBN10: 0813125413
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloththe rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both culturally and economically, as they were to the rest of the South. Yet when the Civil War erupted, Tennessee chose to secede while Kentucky remained part of the Union. The residents of Kentucky and Tennessee felt the full impact of the fighting as warring armies crossed back and forth across their borders. Due to Kentucky's strategic location, both the Union and the Confederacy sought to control it throughout the war, while Tennessee was second only to Virginia in the number of battles fought on its soil. Additionally, loyalties in each state were closely divided between the Union and the Confederacy, making wartime governanceand personal relationshipscomplex. InSister States, Enemy States: The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee, editors Kent T. Dollar, Larry H. Whiteaker, and W. Calvin Dickinson explore how the war affected these two crucial states, and how they helped change the course of the war. Essays by prominent Civil War historians, including Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Marion Lucas, Tracy McKenzie, and Kenneth Noe, add new depth to aspects of the war not addressed elsewhere. The collection opens by recounting each state's debate over secession, detailing the divided loyalties in each as well as the overt conflict that simmered in East Tennessee. The editors also spotlight the war's overlooked participants, including common soldiers, women, refugees, African American soldiers, and guerrilla combatants. The book concludes by analyzing the difficulties these states experienced in putting the war behind them. The stories of Kentucky and Tennessee are a vital part of the larger narrative of the Civil War.Sister States, Enemy Statesoffers fresh insights into the struggle that left a lasting mark on Kentuckians and Tennesseans, just as it left its mark on the nation.

Author Biography

Kent T. Dollar is assistant professor of history at Tennessee Technological University and author of Soldiers of the Cross: Confederate Soldier-Christians and the Impact of War on their Faith.

 

Larry H. Whiteaker is professor emeritus of history at Tennessee Technological University and author of The Individual and Society in America.

 

W. Calvin Dickinson is professor emeritus of history at Tennessee Technological University and coauthor of Tennessee Tales the Textbooks Don’t Tell.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Secession in Kentucky and Tennessee
Beleaguered Loyalties: Kentucky Unionism	p. 9
Not a Pariah, but a Keystone: Kentucky and Secession	p. 25
The Vortex of Secession: West Tennesseans and the Rush to War	p. 46
"An unconditional, straight-out Union man": Parson Brownlow and the Secession Crisis in East Tennessee	p. 72
"We can never live in a southern confederacy": The Civil War in East Tennessee	p. 97
Traitors, Blacks, and Guerrillas in Wartime Kentucky and Tennessee
"Battle against the traitors": Unionist Middle Tennesseans in the Ninth Kentucky Infantry and What They Fought For	p. 123
"Time by the forelock": Champ Ferguson and the Borderland Style of Warfare	p. 140
"I shoot the men and burn their houses": Home Fires in the Line of Fire	p. 168
Freedom Is Better Than Slavery: Black Families and Soldiers in Civil War Kentucky	p. 188
A Long Way from Freedom: Camp Nelson Refugees	p. 217
"Not much a friend to traiters no matter how beautiful": The Union Military and Confederate Women in Civil War Kentucky	p. 245
War's Impact in Kentucky and Tennessee
"My trust is still firmly fixed in God": Alfred T. Fielder, His Christian Faith, and the Ordeal of War	p. 267
An Interrupted Life: Colonel Sidney Smith Stanton	p. 286
The Failure of Restoration: Wartime Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1862-1865	p. 299
Reconstruction Power Play: The 1867 Mayoral Election in Nashville, Tennessee	p. 320
After the Horror: Kentucky in Reconstruction	p. 338
Afterword	p. 363
Contributors	p. 369
Index	p. 373
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