question: What Kentucky Governor adhered to states rights during the Civil War? 
answer: Beriah Magoffin
context: Title: Infantry in the American Civil War
  Passage: The Infantry in the American Civil War comprised foot-soldiers who fought primarily with small arms, and carried the brunt of the fighting on battlefields across the United States.  Historians have long debated whether the evolution of tactics between 1861 and 1865 marked a seminal point in the evolution of warfare.  The conventional narrative is that Generals and other officers adhered stubbornly to the tactics of the Napoleonic Wars, in which armies employed linear formations and favored open fields over the usage of cover (whether constructed or natural in origin).  Presumably, the greater accuracy and range of the rifle musket rendered that approach obsolete, and the Civil War armies' transition to longer battles in 1864 is taken by numerous scholars as proof of the new technology's transformative impact.  More recently, however, academics have begun to reject this narrative.  Earl J. Hess judges the tactical training of the Civil War as critical to the armies' success, and maintains that the dearth of overwhelming victories during the conflict was actually consistent with the infrequency of such battles throughout history.  Allen C. Guelzo contends that rifle muskets did not revolutionize land warfare due to a combination of inadequate firearms training and the poor visibility caused by black powder.  This debate has implications not only for the nature of the soldier's experience, but also for the broader question of the Civil War's relative modernity.  Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh argue that the conflict was resulted from "the combination...of the Industrial Revolution and French Revolution [which] allowed the opposing sides to mobilize immense numbers of soldiers while projecting military power over great distances."  The Civil War involved a number of other recently-introduced and new technologies, including military balloons, repeating rifles, the telegraph, and railroads.
  Title: Preston Leslie
  Passage: Preston Hopkins Leslie (March 8, 1819 – February 7, 1907) was the 26th Governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1875 and territorial governor of Montana from 1887 to 1889.  He ascended to the office of governor by three different means.  First, he succeeded Kentucky governor John W. Stevenson upon the latter's resignation to accept a seat in the United States Senate in 1871.  Later that year, he was elected to a full term as governor, defeating John Marshall Harlan in the general election.  Finally, he was appointed territorial governor by President Grover Cleveland.
  Title: Benjamin Hardin Helm
  Passage: Benjamin Hardin Helm (June 2, 1831 – September 21, 1863) was a Kentucky politician, attorney, Confederate brigadier general, and a brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.  He was also the son of Kentucky Governor John L. Helm.  Helm was born in Bardstown, Kentucky.  He attended the Kentucky Military Institute and the West Point Military Academy and then went to study law at the University of Louisville and Harvard University.  He served as a state legislator and the state's attorney in Kentucky.  He also served as the assistant inspector-general for the Kentucky state guard.  Helm was offered the position of Union Army paymaster by his brother-in-law, President Abraham Lincoln, a position which he declined.  Helm felt it was an honor to serve in the Confederate States Army, where he was initially a colonel and later promoted to brigadier general.  Helm commanded the 1st Kentucky Brigade more commonly known as The Orphan Brigade.  He died on the battlefield during the Battle of Chickamauga.  Helm was married to Emilie Todd, the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln.
  Title: American Civil War
  Passage: The American Civil War (commonly known as the "Civil War" in the United States) was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.  The result of a long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated.  The nationalists of the Union proclaimed loyalty to the U.S. Constitution.  They faced secessionists of the Confederate States of America, who advocated for states’ rights to perpetual slavery and its expansion in the Americas.
  Title: Kentucky Governor's Mansion
  Passage: The Kentucky Governor's Mansion is a historic residence in Frankfort, Kentucky.  It is located at the East lawn of the Capitol, at the end of Capital Avenue.  On February 1, 1972, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places.  Kentucky Governor, Matt Bevin, and his family currently reside in the mansion.
  Title: Beriah Magoffin
  Passage: Beriah Magoffin (April 18, 1815 – February 28, 1885) was the 21st Governor of Kentucky, serving during the early part of the Civil War.  Personally, Magoffin adhered to a states' rights position, including the right of a state to secede from the Union, and he sympathized with the Confederate cause.  Nevertheless, when the Kentucky General Assembly adopted a position of neutrality in the war, Magoffin ardently held to it, refusing calls for aid from both the Union and Confederate governments.
  Title: John Tyler Morgan
  Passage: John Tyler Morgan (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, a six-term U.S. senator from the state of Alabama after the war.  An ardent racist and ex-slave holder, he was a proponent of Jim Crow laws, states rights and racial segregation through the Reconstruction era.  He was an expansionist, arguing for the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii against the native population's will and for U.S. construction of an inter-oceanic canal in Central America.
  Title: Western Kentucky Parkway
  Passage: The Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway is a 98.485 mi controlled-access highway running from Elizabethtown, Kentucky to near Nortonville, Kentucky.  It intersects with Interstate 65 (I-65) at its eastern terminus, and I-69 at its western terminus.  It is one of nine highways that are part of the Kentucky parkway system.  The road was renamed for Wendell H. Ford, a former Kentucky governor and United States Senator, in 1998.  Previously, it was simply the Western Kentucky Parkway, and often called the "WK Parkway" because of the abbreviation once used on its signs.  The Western Kentucky Parkway carries the unsigned designation Kentucky Route 9001 (WK 9001) for its entire length.
  Title: States Rights Gist
  Passage: States Rights Gist (September 3, 1831 – November 30, 1864) was a lawyer, a militia general in South Carolina, and a Confederate Army brigadier general who served during the American Civil War.  A relative of several prominent South Carolinians, Gist rose to fame during the war but was killed before its end at the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864.  His name was based on the Southern states’ rights doctrine of nullification politics of his father, Nathaniel Gist.  Nathaniel Gist was a disciple of John C. Calhoun and chose his son's name to reflect his own political sentiments.
  Title: Thomas H. Taylor
  Passage: Thomas Hart Taylor (July 31, 1825 – April 12, 1901) was a Confederate States Army colonel, brigade commander, provost marshal and last Confederate post commander at Mobile, Alabama during the American Civil War (Civil War).  His appointment as a brigadier general was refused by the Confederate Senate after Confederate President Jefferson Davis failed to nominate Taylor, apparently following Davis's appointment of Taylor to the rank.  Nonetheless, Taylor's name is frequently found on lists and in sketches of Confederate generals.  He was often referred to as a general both during the Civil War and the years following it.  Before the Civil War, Taylor served as a first lieutenant in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Mexican-American War.  After that war, he was a cattle driver, farmer and lawyer.  After the Civil War, he was engaged in business in Mobile, Alabama for five years, and after returning to Kentucky, was a Deputy U.S. Marshal for five years and was chief of police at Louisville, Kentucky for eleven years.
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