"sf" > wrote in message
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> I think of Kentucky as being Southern too. It's the home of Mint
> Juleps after all - the only thing more southern than that is sweet
> tea.

KY was a slave holding state, but officially stayed in the Union. Though
much of the populace back then sided with the South.

"Kentucky, being a border state, was among the chief places where the
"Brother against brother" scenario was prevalent. Kentucky was officially
neutral 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 for assistance, and
thereafter became solidly under Union control."

"Louisville was the turning point for many enslaved blacks. If they could
get from there across the Ohio River, called the "River Jordan" by escaping
slaves, they had a chance for freedom in Ohio and other northern states.
They had to evade capture by bounty-seeking slave catchers, but many were
aided by the Underground Railroad to get further north for freedom."