re: Is Kentucky southern?

let's start with this small, but kinda important detail..

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Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a southern republic, during January–March 1861, and to develop new state constitutions. 

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Even before secession, the governor of Alabama defied the United States government by seizing the two federal forts at the Gulf Coast (forts Morgan and Gaines) and the arsenal at Mount Vernon in January 1861 to distribute weapons to Alabama towns.

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Alabama supplied 120,000 Confederate Troops out of its 529,121 "free people

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kentucky supplied 35,000 Confederate troops out of its 930,201 free people

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Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance. 

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Alabama provided little in the way of leadership to the Confederacy. Kentucky provided significantly to the leadership

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by TarHeel408

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you reckon there were some socio-economic factors that might have causation . hmmmmm..



Kentucky in 1860.
population = 1,155,684/ 930,201*free
# of farms = 83,369
value of farmland = 291.5 million
# of Factories = 3,450
value of Manufactured Products = 37.9 million.

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Alabama in 1860.
population = 964,201/ 529,121*free
# of Farms = 50,064
value of farmland = 175.8 million
# of Factories = 1,459
value of Manufactured Products = 10.6 million


but even with those hindrances:

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Thirty-nine Alabamians attained the ranks of general or admiral, most notably Admiral Raphael Semmes.  

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Semmes:

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During the American Civil War, Semmes was captain of the cruiser CSS Alabama, the most successful commerce raider in maritime history, taking 65 prizes. Late in the war, he was promoted to rear admiral and also acted briefly as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. His appointment or arrangement to act as a temporary brigadier general from April 5 to April 26, 1865, was never submitted to or officially confirmed by the Confederate Senate.

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really wanna compare/discuss who gave what to the Confederacy?!?




wiki Alabama Civil War

wiki kentucky Civil War

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