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Camp Nelson National Monument

Kentucky · Nicholasville, KY

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Address:6614 Danville Road Loop 2 · Nicholasville, KY · 40356

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The US Army established Camp Nelson as a fortified base and supply depot during the Civil War. It became a large recruitment and training center for African American soldiers (USCTs), and a refugee camp for their wives and children, and civilians fleeing war. enslaved people escaped to here with the hope of securing freedom and controlling their futures by aiding in the destruction of slavery.

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Camp Nelson National Monument, formerly the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, is a 525-acre (2.12 km2) national monument, historical museum and park located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Lexington, Kentucky. The American Civil War era camp was established in 1863 as a depot for the Union Army during the Civil War. It became a recruiting ground for new soldiers from Eastern Tennessee and enslaved people, many of whom had fled their living conditions to be soldiers.

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