A Sampling of County and Regional Loyalties in Kentucky During the Civil War

Scott County gave I.,000 to 1,200 men to the Confederate Army and only about 100 men to the Union.
Bourbon County also gave a majority of its men to the Confederate Service. By November of 1863 it had furnished 200 men to the Union and 700 to the Confederacy.

By November 1863 Fayette County out of 1,558 men subject to military service. had sent but 380 men to the Union Army, of which number over one-fourth were officers.

On the other band Pulaski County in the Cumberlands had sent 1,200 men to the Union Army.

2. Some studies have shown that 20 Bluegrass and Western Kentucky counties containing 100,000 slaves furnished only 6,000 Union soldiers out of a military population of 36,000 while, on the other hand, in forty other counties, numbering only 27,000 slaves, as many as 18,000 soldiers were furnished to the Union Army out of a military population of 51,000.
3. Some strong Confederate counties were: Anderson, Owen, Harrison, Nelson, Hardin and Carroll.

4. Logan County was typical of the Pennyrile. Its rich, level farming land covering the southern half of the county supported a well-to-do slave-owning gentry which was ardently Confederate while the hilly northern half, known as "the coon range", was largely pro-Union during the war. The county gave 1,000 men to the Confederate Army and over 500 to the Federal Army.

5. In the hillier mid-section of the Pennyrile Hopkins County was more for the Confederacy while Muhlenberg County had a strong majority for the Union.

6. The Purchase counties in far western Kentucky were almost wholeheartedly Confederate. By mid-1861 Hickman County in the Purchase had furnished only 9 Union soldiers and Fulton County had furnished none. Confederate sentiment was also dominant in the three prosperous Ohio River counties of Union, Henderson, and Davies in the Pennyrile.

7. Hill counties on the fringe of the Cumberlands., such as Casey, Russell, and Clinton were Union to the core.

8. Wayne and Morgan counties, though in the mountains, had a larger proportion of slaves and were wealthier than most other mountain counties and, as would be expected, they also had a considerable number of Confederate sympathizers.

9. After the war Confederate monuments were erected over the state, on court-house lawns, in cemeteries, and in city parks. However, only one such monument was erected to Union soldiers and that was to the soldiers of mountainous Lewis County on the Court House lawn in Vanceburg. This is said to be the only statue of its kind south of the Ohio River. Lewis County was intensely loyal to the Union and is a Republican party stronghold., quite different from its neighboring county of Mason to the west, which has Maysville as its county seat, a town steeped in the traditions and charm of an old Southern river town.

10. At Perryville Battlefield the state of Kentucky erected a monument to the Confederate dead in 1902, but no monument was placed in memory of the Union soldiers until 1931 when the Federal government did so