Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- 1 Introduction: The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Part I Major Battles and Campaigns
- Part II Places
- 20 War on the Rivers
- 21 War on the Waters
- 22 The Blockade
- 23 The Border War
- 24 War in the Deep South
- 25 War in Appalachia
- 26 War in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
- 27 War in the West
- 28 War in Indian Country
- Index
- References
23 - The Border War
from Part II - Places
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- 1 Introduction: The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Part I Major Battles and Campaigns
- Part II Places
- 20 War on the Rivers
- 21 War on the Waters
- 22 The Blockade
- 23 The Border War
- 24 War in the Deep South
- 25 War in Appalachia
- 26 War in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
- 27 War in the West
- 28 War in Indian Country
- Index
- References
Summary
“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game,” President Abraham Lincoln wrote to Illinois senator Orville Browning in September 1861. He continued, “Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland. These all against us, and the job on our hands is too large for us. We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this capitol.” With these choice words Lincoln made clear the centrality of the Border States in the Union war effort. Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri would remain as loyal slaveholding states – along with Delaware – throughout the Civil War.
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- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 471 - 494Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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