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1 online resource (lxxxiii, 401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-379) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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African American soldiers -- Kentucky -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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Freed persons -- Kentucky -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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Antislavery movements -- Kentucky -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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African American soldiers
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African Americans
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Antislavery movements
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Freed persons
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Refugees
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Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
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Soldaten.
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Freedmen -- Kentucky.
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African American soldiers -- Kentucky.
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Camp Nelson (Ky.) -- History
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Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140208
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Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Refugees
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Refugees
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Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140277
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United States
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-- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
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Kentucky
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Kentucky -- Camp Nelson
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United States
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United States, Kentucky, Jessamine, Camp Nelson -- Military history -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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United States, Kentucky, Jessamine, Camp Nelson -- Minorities.
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Camp Nelson, Ky.
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History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813149523 |
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0813149525 |
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