The Civil War in Kentucky was replete with personalities and events stranger than fiction. Gallows humor was very much part of the war. Inevitably, religion mingled with politics in the national fight over slavery. Radically politicized and polarized church leaders both pro and con intensified the conflict. Many on both sides of the conflict were strongly conflicted about the stands that they took, as their personal beliefs about slavery conflicted with the section that they supported in the war.

Many soldiers on both sides of the war died in obscure engagements far from the war's major theaters. Every person's early death diminishes the world by the loss of a future, either for good or for ill, that'll never be realized. The "War of Brothers" was not a genteel gentleman's disagreement, but a catastrophe that tore families apart, sometimes forevermore. Key battles for control of Kentucky were at times fought in other states. The Commonwealth was the target of numerous Confedarate cavalry raids with the objective of disrupting Federal supply lines and command and control to slow the Union's advance on Chattanooga, Tennessee, and, ultimately, Atlanta, Georgia.

Some places where no battles were fought still have history worth being recalled in our time. For many civilians during the Civil War, life went on in fear of marauders calling themselves guerrillas -- more often than not, simple brigands. In Kentucky, guerrilla warfare was every bit as prevalent and vicious as it was in Bleeding Kansas and Missouri. On war's fringes, public safety descends into lawlessness in which no life is safe -- even the guerrilla's.

Unsung Battles contains tales of events, persons, and places often overlooked in the Civil War's "big picture." May no historian be able to write a history of a second American civil war.

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