Friday, January 24, 2014

Beriah Magoffin to Simon Cameron, April 15, 1861

FRANKFORT, KY., April 15, 1861.
Hon. SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War:

Your dispatch is received. In answer I say emphatically Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States.
B. MAGOFFIN,
Governor of Kentucky

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume 1 (Serial No. 122), p. 70

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