{"title":"Pariah","authors":"B. Asher","doi":"10.5810/kentucky/9780813181370.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813181370.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The fluidity and complexity of postwar politics in Kentucky culminated in an alliance between returning Confederates, Democrats, and a growing number of Conservative Unionists. These ascendant politicians embraced a pro-Confederate narrative of the war that used the demonization of Burbridge and his policies as one means to consolidate power. The victims of Burbridge’s executions were reinterred with grand public funerals and imposing monuments; Burbridge’s efforts to gain a federal appointment or to help others who sought them earned him the wrath and strident opposition of Kentucky’s politicians and editorialists; and association with Burbridge was used to tar Republicans and the postwar policies aimed at helping the former slaves secure their freedom.","PeriodicalId":356541,"journal":{"name":"The Most Hated Man in Kentucky","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134114999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1nh3mfr.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1nh3mfr.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356541,"journal":{"name":"The Most Hated Man in Kentucky","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132223226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Butcher","authors":"B. Asher","doi":"10.5040/9781780935898.0010-57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781780935898.0010-57","url":null,"abstract":"Burbridge ordered the retaliatory executions of over sixty people for guerrilla attacks in Kentucky. He ordered that four prisoners in military custody be shot for every Unionist citizen killed in a guerrilla raid. The idea was that such reprisals would restrain the guerrillas in the field, but his postwar critics attacked the killings as illegitimate military murders. This chapter argues that, while there were irregularities in the proceedings leading up to the executions, retaliation was (and is) an accepted part of the rules of war. Moreover, the criticisms of Burbridge’s enemies posited that anyone who had ever enlisted in the Confederacy—in uniform or out, in Union territory, or engaged in hostile actions—was entitled to prisoner-of-war status. Burbridge, subject to the Union’s understanding of the laws of war, saw these combatants differently.","PeriodicalId":356541,"journal":{"name":"The Most Hated Man in Kentucky","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132288575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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