Recollections, Memoirs, & Remembrances
General & Historiographical
Adams, Michael C. C. "'when the man Knows Death': The Civil War Poems of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 96, no. 1 (1998): 1-28.
Asher, Brad. The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2021.
Astor, Aaron. Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Beilein, Joseph M. and Matthew C. Hulbert, eds. The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Craig, Berry F. "Kentucky's Rebel Press: The Jackson Purchase Newspapers in 1861." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 75, no. 1 (1977): 20-27.
Dollar, Kent, Larry H. Whiteaker and W. Calvin Dickerson, eds. Sister States, Enemy States: The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Harrison, Lowell H. "The Civil War in Kentucky: Some Persistent Questions." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 76, no. 1 (1978): 1-21.
________. "Kentucky's Confederate Seal." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 80, no. 1 (1982): 89-90.
Leonard, Elizabeth D. "Lincoln's Judge Advocate General: Joseph Holt of Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 110, no. 3 (2012): 403-437.
Marshall, Anne E. Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press, 2010.
Phillips, Christopher. The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Smith, John David. "Whither Kentucky Civil War and Reconstruction Scholarship?" Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112, no. 2 (2014): 223-247.
Thompson, Lawrence S. "The War Between the States in the Kentucky Novel." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 50 (1952): 26-34.
Wartime Governors
Dues, Michael T. "The Pro-Secessionist Governor of Kentucky: Beriah Magoffin’s Credibility Gap." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 67, no. 1 (1969): 221-231.
Harrison, Lowell H. "George W. Johnson and Richard Hawes: The Governors of Confederate Kentucky." The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 79, no. 1 (1981): 3-39.
________. "Governor Magoffin and the Secession Crisis." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 72, no. 2 (1974): 91-110.
Morton, Jennie C. "Sketch and Picture of Governor Beriah Magoffin." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 4, no. 12 (1906): 8-15.
Politics & Secession
Copeland, James E. "Where were the Kentucky Unionists and Secessionists?" Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 71, no. 4 (1973): 344-363.
Craig, Berry F. "The Jackson Purchase Considers Secession: The 1861 Mayfield Convention." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 99, no. 4 (2001): 339-361.
________. Kentucky Confederates: Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
________. Kentucky's Rebel Press: Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2018.
Dorris, Jonathan T. "Pardoning John Cabell Breckinridge." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 56, no. 4 (1958): 319-324.
Hood, Larry H. "For the Union: Kentucky's Unconditional Unionist Congressman and the Development of the Republican Party in Kentucky, 1863-1865." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 76 (1978): 197-215.
Kaan, William J. "Mahlon D. Manson and the Civil War in Kentucky: The Politics of Martial Glory." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 96, no. 3 (1998): 221-247.
Klotter, James C. "Kentucky, the Civil War, and the Spirit of Henry Clay." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 110, no. 3 (2012): 243-263.
Lee, Jacob F. "An Honorable Position: Joseph Holt's Letter to Joshua F. Speed on Neutrality and Secession in Kentucky, May 1861." Ohio Valley History 7, no. 4 (2007): 32-55.
McKinney, William T. "The Defeat of the Secessionists in Kentucky in 1861." The Journal of Negro History 1, no. 4 (1916): 377-91.
Oliver, David L. "The Contribution of Kentucky to Lincoln's Fourth of July Session of Congress 1861." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 60, no. 2 (1962): 134-142.
Quisenberry, A. C. "The Alleged Secession of Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 15, no. 44 (1917): 13-32.
________. "Kentucky's 'neutrality' in 1861." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 15, no. 43 (1917): 7-21.
Robertson, James R. "Sectionalism in Kentucky from 1855 to 1865." The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 4, no. 1 (1917): 49-63.
Turner, Wallace B. "The Secession Movement in Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 66, no. 3 (1968): 259-278.
Williams, Rusty. My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
Yonkers, Charles E. "The Civil War Transformation of George W. Smith: How a Western Kentucky Farmer Evolved from Unionist Whig to Pro-southern Democrat." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 103, no. 4 (2005): 661-690.
Military & Battles
Allardice, Bruce S., and Lawrence Hewitt, eds. Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Altavilla, Keith. "'Shoot Every D__d Cooperhead': Union Soldiers and Antiwar Dissent in the Ohio Valley." Ohio Valley History 12 (2012): 19-39.
Baber, George. "The Battle of Chickamauga: Kentucky Heroism in the Engagement: A Kentuckian Commemorates the Event in Verse." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 11, no. 31 (1913): 63-67.
________. "Colonel J. Stoddard Johnston: A Great Kentuckian Who Was Distinguished as a Soldier, Scholar and Journalist." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 14, no. 40 (1916): 7-13.
________. "The Heroic Career of a Kentucky Naval Officer: Rear Admiral Lucien Young." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 9, no. 25 (1911): 7-13.
Bearss, Edwin C. "The Battle of Hartsville and Morgan's Second Kentucky Raid." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 65, no. 1 (1967): 1-19.
________. "The Battle of Hartsville and Morgan's Second Kentucky Raid." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 65, no. 2 (1967): 120-133.
________. "The Battle of Hartsville and Morgan's Second Kentucky Raid." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 65, no. 3 (1967): 239-252.
________. "General Bragg Abandons Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 59, no. 3 (1961): 217-244.
________. "General John Hunt Morgan's Second Kentucky Raid, December, 1862 – Part One." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 70, no. 3 (1972): 200-218.
________. "General John Hunt Morgan's Second Kentucky Raid, December, 1862 – Part Two." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 71, no. 2 (1973): 177-188.
________. "General John Hunt Morgan's Second Kentucky Raid, December, 1862 – Part Three." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 71, no. 4 (1973): 426-438.
________. "General John Hunt Morgan's Second Kentucky Raid, December, 1862 – Part Four." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 72, no. 1 (1974): 20-37.
David, John P. "The Kentucky Orphan Brigade: The Confederacy's Best." Perspectives in History 16 (2001): 57-70.
De Falaise, Louis. "Gen. Stephen Gano Burbridge's Command in Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 69, no. 2 (1971): 101-127.
Donaldson, Gary. "'Into Africa': Kirby Smith and Braxton Bragg's Invasion of Kentucky." Filson Club Historical Quarterly 61 (1987): 444-465.
Harrison, Lowell H. "Kentucky-Born Generals in the Civil War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 64, no. 2 (1966): 129-160.
"Kentucky Confederates Buried at Camp Douglas, Illinois." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 46 (1948): 404-409.
Long, E. B. "The Paducah Affair: Bloodless Action that Altered the Civil War in the Mississippi Valley." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 70, no. 4 (1972): 253-276.
Noe, Kenneth. Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Penn, William A. Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthania and Harrison County. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Quisenberry, A. C. "The Battles of Big Hill and Richmond, Kentucky, September, 1862." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 16, no. 48 (1918): 7-25.
________. "The Confederate Campaign in Kentucky, 1862: The Battle of Perryville." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 17, no. 49 (1920): 29-38.
________. "The First Kentucky Cavalry, U. S. A." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 18, no. 53 (1920): 13-20.
________. "Kentucky Union Troops in the Civil War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 18, no. 54 (1920): 13-18.
Sanders, Stuart. Perryville Under Fire: The Aftermath of Kentucky's Largest Civil War Battle. Charleston: The History Press, 2012.
Scalf, Henry P. "The Battle of Ivy Mountain." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 56, no. 1 (1958): 11-26.
Sehlinger, Peter J. "General William Preston: Kentucky's Last Cavalier Fights for Southern Independence." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 93, no. 3 (1995): 257-285.
Smith, John David. "The Recruitment of Negro Soldiers in Kentucky, 1863-1865." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 72, no. 4 (1974): 364-390.
Whitesell, Hunter B. "Military Operations in the Jackson Purchase Area of Kentucky, 1862-1865, Part One." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 63, no. 2 (1965): 140-167.
________. "Military Operations in the Jackson Purchase Area of Kentucky, 1862-1865, Part Two." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 63, no. 3 (1965): 240-267.
________. "Military Operations in the Jackson Purchase Area of Kentucky, 1862-1865, Part Three." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 63, no. 4 (1965): 323-348.
Wooster, Ralph A. "Confederate Success at Perryville." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 59, no. 4 (1961): 318-323.
Slavery & Emancipation
Astor, Aaron. "The Crouching Lion's Fate: Slave Politics and Conservative Unionism in Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 110, no. 3 (2012): 293-326.
Cole, Jennifer. "For Sake of the Songs of the Men Made Free: James Speed and the Emancipationists' Dilemma in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky." Ohio Valley History 4, no. 4 (2004): 27-48.
Ford, Bridget. Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Harrison, Lowell. "Lincoln, Slavery, and Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 106, no. 3 (2008): 571-604.
Hoskins, Patricia Ann. "'The Old First is with the South': The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Memory in the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky." Ph. D. Dissertation, Auburn University (2008).
Hudson, J. Blaine. Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011.
Howard, Victor B. Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1864. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
________. "The Civil War in Kentucky: The Slave Claims his Freedom." The Journal of Negro History 67, no. 3 (1982): 245-256.
Leonard, Elizabeth D. Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2019.
Lewis, Patrick A. "'all men of Decency Ought to Quit the Army': Benjamin F. Buckner, Manhood, and Proslavery Unionism in Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 107, no. 4 (2009): 513-549.
________. For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Salafia, Matthew. Slavery's Borderland: Freedom and Bondage along the Ohio River. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Sears, Richard D. Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
Smith, John David. "'to Hue the Line and Let the Chips Fall Where They May': J. Winston Coleman's 'Slavery Times in Kentucky' Reconsidered." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 103, no. 4 (2005): 691-726.
Taylor, Amy Murrell. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Townsend, William H. Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1955.
Guerrilla Warfare & Homefront
Brown, Meredith M. "John Mason Brown during the Civil War: Indian County and Fighting Morgan's Raiders." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 111 (2013): 41-78.
Castel, Albert. "Quantrill's Missouri Bushwhackers in Kentucky: The End of the Trail." Filson Club History Quarterly 38, no. 2 (April 1964): 125-132.
Edison, Thomas H. John Hunt Morgan and His Raiders. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
Dwyer, Christopher S. "Raiding Strategy: As Applied by the Western Confederate Cavalry in the American Civil War." The Journal of Military History 63, no. 2 (1999): 263-281.
Johnson, Kenneth R. "The Early Civil War in Southern Kentucky as Experienced by Confederate Sympathizers." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 68, no. 2 (1970): 176-179.
Lucas, Scott J. "'Indignities, Wrongs, and Outrages': Military and Guerrilla Incursions on Kentucky's Civil War Home Front." Filson Club Historical Quarterly 73 (1999): 355-376.
Mays, Thomas D. Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson's Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
McKnight, Brian. Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
________. Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Ramage, James. Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Rhyne, J. Michael. "'A Blood Stained Sin': Slavery, Freedom, and Guerrilla Warfare in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112, no. 4 (2014): 553-587.
Valentine, L. L. "Sue Mundy of Kentucky: Part I." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 62, no. 3 (1964): 175-205.
________. "Sue Mundy of Kentucky: Part II." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 62, no. 4 (1964): 278-306.
Watson, Thomas S., and Perry A. Brantley. Confederate Guerrilla Sue Mundy: A Biography of Kentucky Soldier Jerome Clarke. Jefferson, N. C.: McFarland, 2008.
Young, Allison E. "Sue Mundy: An Account of the Terrible Guerrilla of Civil War Times." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 57, no. 4 (1959): 295-316.
Religious Issues
Harlow, Luke E. "The Religion of Proslavery Unionism: Kentucky Whites on the Eve of Civil War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 110, no. 3 (2012): 265-291.
________. Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Weissbach, Lee Shai. "Kentucky Jewry during the Civil War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 110, no. 2 (2012): 165-184.
Women’s History & Experiences
Fredette, Allison Dorothy. Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2020.
Maltby, Mary B. and William H. Coffman. "Recollections of Civil War Times in Kentucky." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 45 (1947): 225-234.
Marshall, Anne E. "A 'Sisters' War: Kentucky Women and their Civil War Diaries." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 100, no. 3 (2012): 481-502.
Local History & Issues
Barnett, James. "Munfordville in the Civil War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 69, no. 4 (1971): 339-361.
Clark, Thomas D. Pleasant Hill in the Civil War. (Pleasant Hill, Ky., 1972).
Crane, J. Michael. "'The Rebels are Bold, Defiant, and Unscrupulous in Their Dementions of All Men': Social Violence in Daviess County, Kentucky, 1861- 1868." Ohio Valley History 2, no. 1 (2002): 17-29.
DeLozier, Mary Jean. "The Civil War and Its Aftermath in Putnam County." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38, no. 4 (1979): 436-461.
Dew, Aloma W. "'between the Hawk and the Buzzard': Owensboro during the Civil War." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 77, no. 1 (1979): 1-14.
Harrison, Lowell H. "A Confederate View of Southern Kentucky, 1861." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 70, no. 3 (1972): 163-178.
Hodges, Glenn. Fearful Times: A History of the Civil War Years in Hancock County, Kentucky. (Hawesville, Ky., 1986).
Messmer, Charles. "Louisville during the Civil War." Filson Club Historical Quarterly 52 (1978): 206-244.
Rockenbach, Stephen. "A Border City at War: Louisville and the 1862 Confederate Invasion of Kentucky." Ohio Valley History 3 (2003): 35-52.
Tenkotte, Paul A. "A Note on Regional Alliances during the Civil War: Kenton County, Kentucky, as a Test Case." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 79, no. 3 (1981): 211-218.
Recollections, Memoirs, & Remembrances
Baird, Nancy D., and Josie Underwood. Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
"Civil War Diary of James M. Dodd of the 'Cooper Guards'." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 59, no. 4 (1961): 343-349.
"Civil War Letters of Albert Boult Fall, Gunner for the Confederacy." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 59, no. 2 (1961): 150-168.
Crocker, Helen B. "A War Divides Green River County," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 70 (1972): 295-311.
Florida, Samuel R. "'I Consider the Regiment My Home': The Orphan Brigade Life and Letters of Capt. Edward Ford Spears, 1861-1865." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 94, no. 2 (1996): 134-173.
Hawn, William F. "Selected Civil War Letters." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 71, no. 3 (1973): 296-306.
Hubbell, John T. "Stand by the Colors: The Civil War Letters of Leander Stem." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 73, no. 2 (1975): 171-194.
Kirke, Edmund and James A. Garfield. "My Campaign in East Kentucky." The North American Review 143 (1886): 525-535.
Lafferty, W. T. "Civil War Reminiscences of John Aker Lafferty." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 59, no. 1 (1961): 1-28.
O'Leary, Jenny, and Harvey H. Jackson. "The Civil War Letters of Captain Daniel O'Leavy." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 77, no. 3 (1979): 157-185.
Towne, Stephen E., and Jay G. Heiser. "'Everything is Fair in War': The Civil War Memoir of George A. 'Lightning' Ellsworth, Telegraph Operator for John Hunt Morgan." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 108, no. 1 (2010): 3-110.
Whitley, Wade H. "Civil War Journal of James E. Paton." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 61, no. 3 (1963): 220-231.
Whitley, Wade H., Clarence E. Mitcham, and Harry F. Lupold. "Civil War Letters." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 72, no. 3 (1974): 262-275.
Williams, Charles G. "Down the Rivers: Civil War Diary of Thomas Benton White." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 67, no. 2 (1969): 134-174.