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Event: Battle of Perryville is a tactical US victory that ended the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. It was the largest battle fought in Kentucky during the war.

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Event: Confederate victory at the Battle of Richmond, which led to their brief occupation of the capital at Frankfort.

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Event: US victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson along the Tennessee—Kentucky border open the Deep South to invasion.

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Event: Battle of Mill Springs in Nancy, Kentucky – a significant US victory that solidified Union support in Kentucky.

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Event: Kentucky ends neutrality and supports the United States as a Border State – a slave state that remained in the Union.

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Event: Camp Dick Robinson is established by General William “Bull” Nelson in nearby Garrard County as the first US Army enlistment center in Kentucky.

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Meeting: Pro-Unionist state legislature elected in Kentucky.

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Event: Kentucky State government declares neutrality. An estimated two-thirds of White Kentuckians supported the U.S. government.

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Event: American Civil War begins after Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

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Event: November 6th – of 1,202 votes cast in Jessamine County, only three are for the Kentucky-born presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln.

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