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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kentucky, (search)
1836 James Clark1836 to 1837 C. A. Wickliffe1837 to 1840 Robert P. Letcher1840 to 1844 William Owsley1844 to 1848 John J. Crittenden1848 to 1850 John L. Helm1850 to 1851 Lazarus W. Powell1851 to 1855 Charles S. Morehead1855 to 1859 Beriah Magoffin1859 to 1861 J. F. Robinson1861 to 1863 Thomas E. Bramulette1863 to 1867 John L. Helm1867 John W. Stevenson1868 to 1871 Preston H. Leslie1871 to 1875 James B. McCreary1875 to 1879 Luke P. Blackburn1879 to 1883 J. Proctor Knott1883 to n years after its passage Kentucky had a population that entitled it to admission into the Union as a State. In Civil War days. The people were strongly attached to the Union, but its Daniel Boone's first sight of Kentucky. governor (Beriah Magoffin) and leading politicians of his party in the State sympathized with the Confederates. The action of Kentucky was awaited with great anxiety throughout the Union. The governor at first opposed secession, for the people were decidedly hostil
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Tennessee, (search)
es all the public property, naval stores, and munitions of war of which she might then be in possession, acquired from the United States, on the same terms and in the same manner as the other States of the Confederacy. Already Governor Harris had ordered (April 29, 1861) the seizure of Tennessee bonds to the amount of $66,000 and $5,000 in cash belonging to the United States in the hands of the collector at Nashville. At about that time Jefferson Davis, disgusted with the timidity of Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, recommended the Kentuckians true to the South to go into Tennessee and there rally and organize. East Tennessee, where loyalty to the Union was strongly predominant, was kept in submission to the Confederacy by the strong arm of military power. The people longed for deliverance, which seemed near at hand when, in January, 1862, the energetic General Mitchel made an effort to seize Chattanooga. His force was too small to effect it, for E. Kirby Smith was watching that
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
ne between Kentucky and Tennessee surveyed by Cox and Briggs, commissioners appointed in 1859......Feb. 28, 1860 Governor Magoffin, by circular, submits to the governors of slave States six propositions, among them: To amend the United States Conky, Secretary of War......Dec. 31, 1860 Montgomery Blair, of Frankfort, Postmaster-General......March 7, 1861 Governor Magoffin answers a War Department call for troops: I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purposin armed neutrality......May 11, 1861 House of Representatives resolves on State neutrality......May 16, 1861 Governor Magoffin proclaims armed neutrality of State......May 20, 1861 Border State convention at Frankfort, with representativesebel females prepared at Newport, where they will be required to sew for the Federal soldiers......July 28, 1862 Governor Magoffin resigns; J. F. Robinsin, speaker of State Senate, succeeds him......Aug. 16, 1862 General Bragg begins his march