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Adams, Roger C. “Panic on the Ohio: The Defense of Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport, September, 1862.” Journal of Kentucky Studies. 9 (1992), 80-90.

Bartman, Roger J. “Joseph Holt and Kentucky in the Civil War.” Filson Club History Quarterly, 40:2 (April 1996), 105-122.

Barton, Lon Carter. “The Reign of Terror in Graves County.” Kentucky Historical Register. Vol. 46, No. 154 (January 1948), 484-495.

Bearss, Edwin C. “General Bragg Abandons Kentucky.” KHS Register. Vol. 59 (1961), 217-244.

Bearss, Edwin C. “General Nelson Saves the Day at Shiloh.” KHS Register, Vol. 63, No. 1 (January 1965), 39-69.

Blakely, Laurie J. “The Story of Three Governors.” KHS Register. Vol. 10, No. 30 (September 1912), 37-41.

Brown, Kent M. “Munfordville: The Campaign and Battle Along Kentucky’s Strategic Axis.” The Register, Vol. 97, No. 3 (Summer 1999), 247-285.

Brown, Richard C. “The Affair at Danville, Kentucky, January 29, 1865”, typescript.

Brown, Richard C. “The Free Blacks of Boyle County, Kentucky, 1850-1860.” KHS Register. Vol. 87, No. 4 (Autumn 1989), 426-438.

Buell, Don Carlos. “Shiloh Reviewed” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. I, 487-536.

Buell, Don Carlos. “East Tennessee and the Campaign of Perryville” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III, 31-51.

Calbert, Jack. “The Jackson Purchase and the End of the Neutrality Policy in Kentucky.” Filson Club History Quarterly, 38:3 (July 1964), 426-438.

Carr, Joseph D. “Garfield and Marshall in the Big Sandy Valley, 1861-62.” FCHQ, 64 (1990), 247-263.

Castel, Albert. “Quantrill’s Missouri Bushwhackers in Kentucky: The End of the Trail,” Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 38, pp. 125-132.

Cheek, Christen Ashby, ed. “Memoirs of Mrs. E. B. Patterson: A Perspective on Danville During the Civil War.” KHS Register, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Autumn 1994), 347-399.

Coburn, Ronald. “The Brave Wore Gray.” KHS Register, Vol. 61, No. 4 (October 1963), 330-339.

Collins, Richard B. “Civil War Annals of Kentucky.” FCHQ, Vol. 35, No. 3 (July 1961), 205-322.

Connelly, Thomas L. “Neo-Confederatism or Power Vacuum: Post-War Kentucky Politics Reappraised.” KHS Register. Vol. 64 (1966), 257-269.

Connelly, Thomas L. “The Other Civil War.” American History Illustrated. November 1973, 19-31.

Copeland, James E. “Where Were the Kentucky Unionists and Secessionists?” KHS Register. Vol. 21, No. 4 (October 1973), 344-363.

Davis, Merlene. “Shaker Descendants Cherish Family History.” Lexington Herald-Leader, Sunday, June 11, 2000, J1, J5.

DeBerry, John H. “The Glory is Theirs Forever: Remarks Delivered at the Rededication of the Kentucky Monument at Shiloh Battlefield.” KHS Register. (Summer 1990), 278-286.

DeFalaise, Louise. “General Stephen Gano Burbridge’s Command in Kentucky,” KHS Register, Vol. 69 (April 1971), pp. 101-127.

Donaldson, Gary. “’Into Africa’: Kirby Smith and Braxton Bragg’s Invasion of Kentucky.” FCHQ, Vol. 61, No. 4 (October 1987), 444-465.

Dues, Michael T. “Governor Beriah Magoffin of Kentucky: Sincere Neutral or Secret Secessionist?” FCHQ, Vol. 40 (October 1987), 444-465.

Dues, Michael T. “The Pro-Secessionist Governor of Kentucky: Beriah Magoffin’s Credibility Gap.” KHS Register, (July 1969), 221-231.

Eidson, William G. “Louisville, Kentucky During the First Year of the Civil War.” FCHQ, Vol. 38, No. 3 (July 1964), 224-238.

Engle, Stephen D. “Don Carlos Buell: Military Philosophy and Command Problems in the West.” Civil War History, Vol. 42, No. 2 (June 1995), 89-115.

Engle, Stephen D. “Success, Failure, and the Guillotine: Don Carlos Buell and the Campaign for the Bluegrass State.” KHS Register, Vol. 96, No. 4 (Autumn 1998), pp. 315-349.

Farrelly, David G. “John Marshall Harlan and the Union Cause in Kentucky, 1861.” FCHQ, Vol. 37 (1963), 5-23.

Flora, Samuel R., ed. “I consider the Regiment my home”: The Orphan Brigade Life and Letters of Capt. Edward Ford Speaks, 1861-1865. KHS Register, Vol. 94, No. 2 (Spring 1996), 134-173.

“Forrest’s Brigade - Second Reunion at Memphis.” KHS Register, January 1907, 85.

“General Forrest’s Account of Miss Emma Samson as a Pilot.” KHS Register, January 1907, 27-28.

Grimsley, Mark. “Conciliation and Its Failure, 1861-1862.” Civil War History, Vol. 39, No. 4 (December 1993), 317-335.

Guerrant, Edward O. “Marshall and Garfield in Eastern Kentucky,” in Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. I, 393-397.

Harrison, Lowell H. “Beriah Magoffin”, in Harrison (ed.), Kentucky’s Governors, 1792-1985. Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

Harrison, Lowell H. “Confederate Kentucky: The State That Almost Was.” Civil War Times Illustrated, Vol. 12, No. 1 (April 1973), 12-21.

Harrison, Lowell H. “Governor Magoffin and the Secession Crisis.” KHS Register (April 1974), 91-110.

Harrison, Lowell H. “Kentucky” in W. Buck Yearns (ed.), The Confederate Governors. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985, 83-90.

Harrison, Lowell H. “Kentucky-Born Generals in the Civil War.” KHS Register, Vol. 64, No. 2 (April 1966), pp. 129-160.

Harrison, Lowell H. “Should I Surrender?” A Civil War Incident.” FCHQ, Vol. 40, No. 4 (October 1966), 297-306.

Harrison, Lowell H. “Simon Buckner: A Profile.” Civil War Times Illustrated. February 1978, 36-45.

Harrison, Lowell H. “The Battle of Munfordville.” Civil War Times Illustrated (______), 5-6, 8-9, 45-47.

Harrison, Lowell H. “The Civil War in Kentucky: Some Persistent Questions.” KHS Register, Vol. 76, No. 1 (January 1978), 1-21.

Hewlett, James H. “Centre College of Kentucky, 1819-1830.” FCHQ, (July 1944), 173-191.

Higginbotham, R. Don. “The Martial Spirit in the Antebellum South: Some Further Speculations in a National Context.” Journal of Southern History. Vol. LVII, No, 1 (February 1992), 3-26.

Howard, Victor. “Lincoln’s Slave Policy in Kentucky,” Kentucky Historical Society Register, Vol. 80 (Summer 1982), pp. ____.

Hughes, Nicky. “Fort Boone and the Civil War Defense of Frankfort.” KHS Register, Vol. 88, No. 2 (Spring 1990), 148-162.

Hughes, Susan Lyons. “My Old Kentucky Home - At War,” North & South, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 59-67.

Johnston, William Preston. “Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, I, pp. 540-568. Kaan, William J. “Mahlon D. Manson and the Civil War in Kentucky: The Politics of Martial Glory.” KHS Register, Vol. 96, No. 3 (Summer 1998), 221-247.

Kelly, Robert M. “Holding Kentucky for the Union,” in Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, ed. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Vol. I, 373-392.

“Kentucky Confederates Buried at Camp Douglas, Illinois.” KHS Register, Vol. 46 (1948), 404-409.

Klotter, James C. “Feuds in Appalachia: An Overview.” FCHQ, Vol. 56, No. 3 (July 1982), 290-317.

Lucas, Marion B. “Camp Nelson, Kentucky During the Civil War: Cradle of Liberty or Refugee Death Camp?” FCHQ, Vol. 63, No. 4 (October 1989), 439-452.

Martin, James B. “Black Flag Over the Bluegrass: Guerrilla Warfare in Kentucky, 1863-1865.” KHS Register (Autumn 1988), 352-375.

McClure, William T. and Joseph L. McClure. “Civil War Letters of Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.” (Ed. by G. Glenn Clift.) KHS Register, Vol. 60 (1962), 209-232.

McKinney, Francis F. “The Trial of General Buell.” Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review. Vol. LXIV (March 1, 1958), 163-168.

Messmer, Charles. “Louisville and the Confederate Invasion of 1862.” KHS Register, Vol. 55 (1957), 299-324.

Messmer, Charles. “Louisville During the Civil War.” FCHQ, Vol. 52, No. 2 (April 1978), 206-233.

Morgan, George W. “Cumberland Gap” in Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel, ed. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, III, pp. 62-69.

Morton, Jennie C. “Sketch of Governor Beriah Magoffin” KHS Register, Vol. 4, No. 12 (September 1906), 8-15.

Neal, Julia. “South Union Shakers During War Years.” The Filson Club History Quarterly. (Vol. 39, 1965), 147-150.

Peckham, Howard H. “I Have Been Basely Murdered.” American Heritage (August 1963), 88-92.

Quisenberry, A. C. “The Alleged Secession of Kentucky.” KHS Register, Vol. 15, No. 44 (May 1917), 15-32.

Quisenberry, A. C. “The First Kentucky Cavalry, U.S.A.” KHS Register, Vol. 18, No. 53 (May 1920), 15-20.

Quisenberry, A. C. “Kentucky Union Troops in the Civil War.” KHS Register, Vol. 18, No. 54 (September 1920), 13-18.

Quisenberry, A. C. “Kentucky’s ‘Neutrality’ in 1861.” KHS Register, Vol. 15, No. 43 (January 1917), 9-21.

Quisenberry, A. C. “The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, September, 1862.” KHS Register (September 1918), 9-17.

Robertson, James R. “Sectionalism in Kentucky, 1855-1865.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Vol. IV (June 1917), 49-63.

“Roll of Quirk’s Scouts, C.S.A.” KHS Register (January 1904), 35-36.

Sanders, Stuart W. “Buckeye Warriors at Perryville,” America’s Civil War, January 2001, pp. 38-44, 86.

Scalf, Henry P. “The Battle of Ivy Mountain.” KHS Register, Vol. 56 (1958), 11-26.

“Shaker Descendants Cherish Family History,” Lexington Herald-Leader, June 11, 2000, pp. J1, J5. Shelton, Phillip M. “Camp Beauregard, Graves County, Kentucky.” KHS Register, Vol. 61, No. 2 (April 1963), 148-157.

Shortbridge, Wilson P. “Kentucky Neutrality in 1861.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. IX (March 1923), 283-301.

Smith, John David. “Kentucky Civil War Recruits: A Medical Profile.” Medical History, Vol. 24 (1980), 185-196.

Smith, John David. “The Recruitment of Negro Soldiers in Kentucky, 1863-1865.” KHS Register, Vol. 72 (1974), 364-390.

Smith, Krista. Slaveholders vs. Slaveholders: Divided Kentuckians in the Secession Crisis.” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Vol. 97, No. 4 (Autumn 1999).

Sprague, Stuart S. “Civil War” in John E. Kleber (ed.). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992.

Steely, Will Frank. “The Established Churches and Slavery, 1850-1860.” KHS Register, Vol. 55, No. 2 (April 1957), 97-104.

Tapp, Hambleton, ed. “A Sketch of the Early Life and Service in the Confederate Army of Dr. John A. Lewis of Georgetown, Ky.” KHS Register, Vol. 75 (1977), 121-140.

Tapp, Hambleton, ed. “The Battle of Perryville October 8, 1862 As Described in the Diary of Captain Robert B. Taylor.” KHS Register, Vol. 60 (October 1962), 255-292.

Tenkott, Paul A. “A Note on Regional Allegiances During the Civil War: Kenton County, Kentucky as a Test Case.” KHS Register, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Summer 1981), 211-218.

Turner, Wallace B. “The Secession Movement in Kentucky.” KHS Register, Vol. 66, No. 3 (July 1968), 259-278.

From “Under the Stars and Stripes.” The Confederates Capture Frankfort, Sept. 3, 1862. KHS Register (September 1918), 17-25.

Webb, Ross A. “Kentucky: Pariah Among the Elect,” in Richard O. Curry (ed.), Radicalism, Racism and Party Realignment: The Border States During Reconstruction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969.

Whitesell, Hunter B. “Military Operations in the Jackson Purchase Area of Kentucky, 1862-1865.” KHS Register (April 1965), 141-167; (July 1965), 240-267; (October 1965), 323-348.

Whitesell, Hunter B. “Military and Naval Activity Between Cairo and Columbus.” KHS Register, Vol. 61 (April 1963), 107-121.

Whitley, Mrs. Wade Hampton (ed.). Civil War Journal of James E. Paton. KHS Register, Vol. 61, No. 3 (July 1963), 220-231.

Woodworth, Steven. “The Indeterminate Qualities: Jefferson Davis, Leonidas Polk, and the End of Kentucky Neutrality, September 1861.” Civil War History, Vol. 38 (1992), 289-297.

Wooster, Ralph A. “Confederate Success at Perryville.” KHS Register, Vol. 59 (1961), 318-323.

Zacharias, Donald W. “John J. Crittenden Crusades for the Union and Neutrality in Kentucky.” FCHQ, Vol. 38, No. 3 (July 1964), 193-205.

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