FAQ #12. What effect did the Civil War have on Kentucky when the war was over?

ANSWER: There were many major results of the Civil War in Kentucky after the war was over.
1. Thousands of Kentucky men and countless civilian Kentuckians died as a result of the war.
2. Slavery was ended in Kentucky along with all of the other states in the South were it had existed.
3. The educational system of Kentucky was seriously degraded due to the Civil War.
4. The civil courts and legal system in Kentucky were seriously degraded or nonexistent when the war was over.
5. Many of the feuds which occurred in Kentucky in the postwar years could be directly traced back to causes during the Civil War.