Kentucky is an interesting case study. The state produced equal numbers of troops for both the Confederacy and the Union (approx. 50K equally). However, after the war, more monumentation to the Confederacy went up in the state than to the Union war effort.
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Missouri, too: it had been such a flashpoint for proslavery forces before the war (Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas), yet had comparatively few actual slaves.
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Nobody was collecting data by parts of Virginia in 1860. But the War Department's map is pretty dramatic:pic.twitter.com/tGERnZZfGS
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Because Lincoln promised in his 1st Inaugural that he would never interfere with slavery.
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