Longitudinal Database of Civil War Recruits from Kentucky, 1860-1880

This is a replication package for "Ideology and Migration after the American Civil War," published in the <i>Journal of Economic History.</i> The American Civil War fractured communities in border states where
families who would eventually support the Union or the Confederacy lived
together prior to the conflict. We study the subsequent migration choices of
Civil War veterans and their families using a unique longitudinal dataset
covering enlistees from the border state of Kentucky. Nearly half of surviving
Kentucky veterans moved to a new county between 1860 and 1880. We find strong
evidence of sorting along ideological dimensions for veterans from both sides
of the conflict. However, we find limited evidence of a positive economic
return to these relocation decisions.

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