So, what are my thoughts about the Confederate statues in Kentucky? Well, there shouldn’t be ANY confederate products, flags, or statues because Kentucky fought as a northern state. It was literally a battleground state that was important to the war effort for the north. At the time, the agreement was to have KY join the war, but keep the state would keep its slaves after the war. Basically, it was a way to say anything to keep KY on our side.
KY has always been confused about its northern and southern identity for years. We’ve had former Confederate statues all over the state right beside famous northern statues. We had families split down the middle fight each other on both sides because this was a border state. However, because we were truly a Union state on paper, none of the confederate statues and Confed flag-waving makes any sense.
From the theguardian.com, ((Though Kentucky remained in the Union during the war, and indeed was the home state of Abraham Lincoln, the presence in its capitol of a statue of a Confederate leader is not particularly unusual. Nor should it seem particularly surprising that the bottle and newspaper found under the Davis statue were from the 1930s.))
Jefferson Davis, the “president of the Confederate”, was the face and leader of the pro-slave states during the Civil War. In Kentucky, they’re finally taking down the statue in Frankfort, KY. When they removed the statue, they discovered an old bourbon bottle and a newspaper dated October 20, 1936. So, the paper and bottle were thrown in the base the same day the statue was put up. The Glenmore company is still around but under a different owner.
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