The Border War

doi:10.1017/9781316563168.023

23 - The Border War

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2019

Aaron Astor

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Aaron Sheehan-Dean

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Aaron Sheehan-Dean: Affiliation:
Louisiana State University

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“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game,” President Abraham Lincoln wrote to Illinois senator Orville Browning in September 1861. He continued, “Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland. These all against us, and the job on our hands is too large for us. We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this capitol.” With these choice words Lincoln made clear the centrality of the Border States in the Union war effort. Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri would remain as loyal slaveholding states – along with Delaware – throughout the Civil War.

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Information: The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 471 - 494

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316563168.023 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2019

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