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Camp Nelson, Kentucky : A Civil War History / Richard D. Sears.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sears, Richard D., 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--Kentucky--History--19th century--Sources.
- Antislavery movements.
- Freed persons--Kentucky--History--19th century--Sources.
- Freed persons.
- African American soldiers--Kentucky--History--19th century--Sources.
- African American soldiers.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.
- United States.
- Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.
- Kentucky.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Refugees.
- Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Refugees.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
- Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
- Camp Nelson (Ky.)--History.
- Camp Nelson (Ky.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (494 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. Sears tells the story of the rise and fall of the camp through the shifting perspective of a changing cast of characters -- teachers, civilians, missionaries such as the Reverend John G. Fee, and fleeing slaves and enlisted blacks who describe their pitiless treatment at the hands of slave owners and Confeder
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-379) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-2879-X
- 0-8131-4952-5
- OCLC:
- 606914560
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