Kentucky

[wausaubob]

Any Confederate force that crossed the Ohio River was probably going to find itself cutoff from recrossing, and soon surrounded by federal regulars and militias. The Ohio River shielded the US as Kentucky would have shielded the Confederacy if they had been able to retain it.

 

[leftyhunter]

Any Confederate force that crossed the Ohio River was probably going to find itself cutoff from recrossing, and soon surrounded by federal regulars and militias. The Ohio River shielded the US as Kentucky would have shielded the Confederacy if they had been able to retain it.

At the end of the day there just wasn't enough Confedrate troops to go around. Either young men in Kentucky joined the CSA in sufficient numbers or they don't and they didn't.
Leftyhunter