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Even though Owsley County was formed only 19 years before the Civil War ( see Kentucky in the American Civil War ), it led all counties in the U. S. in the percentage of white population who enrolled in the Union Army.

During the war between the states 13. 64 per cent of the voters in the 1860 election volunteered for service.

Only the state of Kansas furnished a larger percentage of volunteers according to population.