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Camp Nelson, Kentucky : a Civil War history /
Camp Nelson, Kentucky, was designed in 1863 as a military supply depot for the Union Army. Later it became one of the country's most important recruiting stations and training camps for black soldiers and Kentucky's chief center for issuing emancipation papers to former slaves. Richard D....
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The establishment of Camp Nelson and the invasion of East Tennessee
- Black recruitment
- Soldiers, missionaries, refugees
- The expulsion
- The refugee home
- Administrative troubles and the Belle Mitchell Incident
- Closing the camp
- Claiming the remains.