President Lincoln knew that slave state Kentucky would be a target for the Confederates. Major General George B. McClellan was in charge of the Department of Ohio. He had been given orders to capture Columbus, Kentucky if he believed it was a necessity because of Confederate threats. McClellan was advised by pro-Unionists in Kentucky that any Union military action in that state, it would drive Kentucky into the Confederacy. He therefore took no military actions in Kentucky.
Kentucky was the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, the US president and of Jefferson Davis, the president of the confederate states.
President Lincoln believed the lack of Union restraint in Missouri, especially the actions by General Fremont contributed to the civil war in that state. Lincoln planned on a policy of restraint for Kentucky. The slave border state had declared itself "neutral". He refused to concede Kentucky's so-called neutrality but he agreed for the time to not interfere in their policy.
Abraham Lincoln was the president during the civil war.
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the president during the civil war.
Abraham Lincoln was the President of the Union in the Civil War.
The Civil War
Abraham Lincoln was the president during the United States Civil War
Andrew Johnson was Lincoln's Vice-President.
Abraham Lincoln was president during the US Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was the president during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was President during the Civil War.