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1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Contents |
Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction ; 1 The World Is a Crueland Cold Place; 2 Firstborn of the Union; 3 Brave Hearts andStout Hands; 4 I Feel Impelled to Pause; 5 Privileges and Elections; 6 Democratic PartisanMilitia; Epilogue Glen Avon; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for Southern independence. Defying the wishes of his Rebel fiancée and her powerful family -- yet still hoping to impress them with his resolve, independence, and courage -- Buckner joined the Twentieth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in 1861 as a Union soldier. President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclama |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Buckner, Benjamin Forsythe, 1836-1901
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Buckner, Benjamin Forsythe, 1836-1901 fast |
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United States. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865)
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United States. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865) fast |
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Unionists (United States Civil War) -- Kentucky -- Biography
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Slavery -- Kentucky -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Slavery
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Unionists (United States Civil War)
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Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140214
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Kentucky
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014039418 |
| ISBN |
9780813160818 |
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0813160812 |
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9780813160801 |
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0813160804 |
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9780813160795 |
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0813160790 |
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