Beriah Magoffin – The Civil War Months

Turmoil in Kentucky Continues

Confederates form a defense line across Kentucky while Federals open recruitment efforts, thereby ensuring that turmoil in the state will continue.

The Unionist Kentucky legislature demands that Confederates leave the state, but Leonidas Polk refuses unless the Federals do the same.

Kentucky’s neutrality, which had been in question for several months, officially ends with the Confederate occupation of Columbus.

The recruitment of Federal troops in Kentucky threatens the state’s delicate neutrality.

Pro-Confederate Kentuckians boycott an election that results in Unionist candidates winning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Both Kentucky and Delaware try to stay neutral in the conflict, but Kentucky’s position greatly overshadows tiny Delaware’s.

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