Practically speaking, Kentucky never fought for the Confederacy on the side of the Civil War. Apparently an assembly of the citizens did pass an ordinance of secession, but it never came to anything.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The confederate flag, however, recognizes Kentucky as a Confederate state by granting it one of the thirteen stars on the battle flag of the confederacy.
South Carolina was the first to secede in 1860
Borders do not secede but states do. Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri were border states that did not secede in the union.
1860 ? secede from union
1860 ? secede from union
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December 1860. It was South Carolina.
December 1860.
December 20, 1860
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South Carolina
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The first southern state to secede from the Union was South Carolina, which did so on December 20, 1860.