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Category: Supplementary Material

Revision requires cutting, all authors know this far too well. In the process of revising the For Slavery and Union manuscript, some entire sections had to be left on the cutting room floor. For interested readers, some of that material is reproduced here.

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Patrick A. Lewis

Trade War: Lexington, Cincinnati, and Louisville Struggle over Postwar Kentucky

As Buckner’s term on the bench of Common Pleas continued in the late 1870s, Lexington and the Bluegrass region recovered much of the prosperity that the war and its aftermath had temporarily derailed. And rails, indeed, were the engine by which that Bluegrass prosperity was restored. Read more

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Patrick A. Lewis

Blackwell, Murphy, and Ferguson: Collapse of the Interstate Slave Trade

The de facto collapse of slavery in the Bluegrass at war’s end had shattered more than white psyches and Frankfort’s relationship with Washington. Read more

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Patrick A. Lewis

Buckner and the Red River Iron Works: Mineral and Petroleum Speculation After 1865

As the Confederates invaded Kentucky in the summer of 1862, Josiah A. Jackson, outspoken Unionist and proprietor of the Red River Iron Works across the Clark County line in Estill, felt both his business and his personal safety under threat from the rebel forces in the state. Read more

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