Staying in the Union while not supporting it, as they still viewed the south as their brothers. They also issued a neutrality proclamation on May, 20, 1861 asking both sides to stay out of the state. Though this neutrality was quickly broken when C.S.A General Leonidas Polk took Columbus, Kentucky in the summer of the same year. In response to this violation of neutrality, Kentucky Legislature (who at this point was mostly union) passed a resolution directing the then governor Beriah Magoffin to demand Polk's immediate evacuation. Magoffin, a southern sympathizer, vetoed this demand, but the legislature overturned his veto and the demand was sent. The legislature then decided to back Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his troops stationed in Paducah, Kentucky on the grounds that the Confederacy violated their neutrality first, and so flew a Union banner over the state capitol, showing their allegiance to the Union. This was met with outrage from the southern sympathizers in the state, who argued that the only reason Polk entered the state was to counter Grant. The Legislature then passed three resolutions: one inviting Union General Robert Anderson to recruit volunteers in the state to rid Kentucky of
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