Magoffin's Neutrality

ID: 712

This file appears in: Governor Beriah Magoffin

This June 6, 1861 political cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly and shows a bourbon wielding Kentucky cat holding the cock of the walk (Uncle Sam) while the secessionist cat (Jeff Davis) kills off the Union one by one. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Governor Beriah Magoffin

Governor Beriah Magoffin

By Sanders

Historical Marker #786 in Magoffin County commemorates the county being named for Beriah Magoffin, one of Kentucky's Civil War governors. A Harrodsburg lawyer, Magoffin became governor of Kentucky on the eve of the Civil War. Although…