Sources

USCT Recruitment Poster, 1864

State Sources

Kentucky. Adjutant General's Office, Lindsey, D. Weisiger. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, 1861-1866. (Frankfort, Kentucky), Printed at the Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867. Accessed February 20, 2019, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.49772183;view=1up;seq=7 or download PDF of Kentucky's Adjutant General Report (190 MB)

Michigan. Adjutant General's Office, Robertson, Jno. Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Michigan for the Years, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865. (Lansing, Michigan), Printed at John A. Kerr and Company, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865. Accessed February 23, 2019, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101071984528;view=1up;seq=5 or download PDF of Michigan's Adjutant General Report (27 MB)

Wisconsin. Adjutant General's Office, Gaylord, Augustus. Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Wisconsin for the Years, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865.(Madison, Wisconsin), Printed at the Democrat Printing Company, 1912. Accessed February 19, 2019, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076670721;view=1up;seq=9 or download PDF of Wisconsin's Adjutant General Report (30 MB)

Government Related Publications

United States War Department. Official Records of War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894), accessed January 31, 2019. http://collections.library.cornell.edu/moa_new/waro.html

United States Census Bureau. Kennedy, Joseph C. G. Population of the United States in 1860; Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census," (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864), accessed on October 3, 2018, https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1864/dec/1860a.html

Secondary Sources

Astor, Aaron. Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

Berry, Mary Frances. Military Necessity and Civil Rights Policy: Black Citizenship and the Constitution, 1861-1868 . New York: Kennikat Press, 1977.

Cox, Shae Smith. "Kentucky's Conflict as a Border State during the Secession Crisis." ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013.

Harris, William C. Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 2011.

Lewis, Patrick. For Union and Slavery: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War . Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

Marshall, Anne E. Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Mathews, Gary. More American than Southern: Kentucky, Slavery, and the War for an American Ideology . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014.

McPherson, James. For Cause and Comrades. Why Men Fought in the Civil War . New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Murdock, Eugene C. One Million Men: The Civil War Draft in the North . Conn: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Mitchell, Robert E. "Civil War Recruiting and Recruits from Ever-Changing Labor Pools: Midland County, Michigan, as a Case Study." Michigan Historical Review 35, no. 1 (2009): 29-60. Accessed February 20, 2019. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25652150.

Robinson, Michael. A Union Indivisible: Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Smith, John David. Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.

Tallant, Harold. Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

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Images

Company E, 4th USCT.1864. Washington, D.C. Obtained from http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/grandreview/category/us-colored-troops/ (Banner Picture: Home Page).

Map of Kentucky.1861. David Rumsey Collection. Obtained from https://www.davidrumsey.com Home Page: Outline of Kentucky.

The Rail Splitter at Work Repairing the Union.1865. Washington, D.C. Obtained from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln_and_Johnsond.jpg Banner Picture: About the Project).

Lincoln and McClellan.1862. Obtained from https://slicethelife.com/2012/09/02/american-civil-war-president-lincoln-brings-general-mcclellan-back-to-command/ Button Picture: 1862.

Civil War Recruitment Poster.1861. Obtained from http://jikupic.pw/Civil-War-recruitment-posters-18611864-War-and.html Button Picture: 1863.

Black Soldier.Ethnicity, Race, and the Military. Obtained from https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/ethnicity-race-and-the-military.htm/ Button Picture: 1864-1865.

Scott's Anaconda Plan.1861. Random Thoughts on History. Obtained from http://randomthoughtsonhistory.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-fence-sitting-commonwealth.html/ (Banner Picture: 1861).

22nd Kentucky Infantry.1862. Washington, D.C. Obtained from https://civilwartalk.com/threads/22nd-kentucky-infantry.130061/ Banner Picture: 1862).

Eighth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, Lookout Mountain, 1863. Obtained from https://www.kyforward.com/old-time-kentucky-old-glory-raised-atop-lookout-mountain-inspired-union-to-victory-at-chattanooga/ Banner Image: 1863.

The Tragic and Ignored History of Black Veterans. Obtained from https://taskandpurpose.com/tragic-ignored-history-black-veterans Banner Image: Kentucky's Military Exhaustion in 1864 and 1865.

Black Soldiers with White Officer. Obtained from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Colored_Troops#/media/File:Come_and_Join_Us_Brothers,_by_the_Supervisory_Committee_For_Recruiting_Colored_Regiments.jpg Banner Image: Sources.

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