Camp Nelson, Kentucky : A Civil War History /

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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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Main Author: Sears, Richard D., 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soldaten.
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Refugees.
Freed persons.
Antislavery movements.
African Americans.
African American soldiers.
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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.

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