Timeline of Kentucky in the American Civil War

== 1861 == February 9, 1861 • Seven states, having declared their secession from the Union, establish a Southern provisional government, the Confederate States of America. === Spring and Summer 1861 === April 12, 1861 • Confederate forces attack a Federal fort outside Charleston, South Carolina, at the Battle of Fort Sumter, beginning the American Civil War.

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