Kentucky Confederates: Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase

During the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase-bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east-fought hard for separation and secession, and produced eight times more Confederates than Union soldiers. Supporting states' rights and slavery, these eight counties in the westernmost part of the commonw