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Camp Nelson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky. It was originally a graveyard associated with the U.S. Army 's Camp Nelson , which was active during the U.S. Civil War and its aftermath.
This is a list of Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) posts in Kentucky, United States.The G.A.R. Department of Kentucky was officially organized January 17, 1883. [1]Over 100,000 Kentuckians, including 23,703 African Americans, served in the Union Army or the Union Navy during the Civil War, compared to over 40,000 soldiers who served in Kentucky Confederate regiments. [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.
Kentucky’s slow and winding route to emancipation is getting more attention, thanks to Camp Nelson’s rolling hills and palisades becoming a national monument site in 2018 after years of ...
Although national ratification of the 13th Amendment meant Kentucky was bound to the federal law, Kentucky did not itself ratify it until 1976. As always, thank goodness for Mississippi. It did ...
Camp Nelson is now a national monument, and historians like UK’s Amy Murrell Taylor have uncovered much of the site’s history as a refugee camp for enslaved Kentuckians who made their ...
This list of cemeteries in Kentucky includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Camp Nelson National Monument 6614 Danville Road Loop 2, Nicholasville; Visiting Center and Museum open 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday-Sunday; Camp Nelson National Monument open sunrise to sunset every day.