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Camp Nelson National Cemetery interred the remains of armed forces personnel and veterans who served in conflicts from the late 19th century until it closed to new burials in 1964. [3] In 1975, the donation of 10 acres (4.0 ha) just outside the cemetery's stone wall allowed it to begin accepting new burials again.
This list of cemeteries in Michigan includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
More than 10,000 either enlisted in the Civil War on the Union’s side or trained at Camp Nelson, which became a national monument in 2018. ... for military veterans buried at African Cemetery #2 ...
Camp Nelson National Monument, formerly the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, is a 525-acre (2.12 km 2) national monument, historical museum and park located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Lexington, Kentucky.
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 military cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War , in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [ 1 ]
Camp Nelson can refer to: ... Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery in Lonoke County, Arkansas, U.S. Camp Nelson National Cemetery in Jessamine County, Kentucky, U.S.
The 12th Regiment Heavy Artillery U.S. Colored Troops was organized on July 15, 1864, at Camp Nelson. Until January 1865 it was attached to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio. It was then attached to the Military District of Kentucky and Dept. of Kentucky, to April, 1866.
A History of the First Michigan Colored Regiment. Thesis (M.A.)--Central Michigan University, 1967, 1967. First Michigan Colored Regiment. Sponsored by the Detroit Branch, Association for the Study of Negro Life and history. Historic plaque located on the grounds of Duffield Elementary School, the original site of Camp Ward, Detroit.