Camp Nelson, Kentucky

Creation Date

1863

Dissolution Date

1865

Entity Type

Organization

Organized in 1863 near Nicholasville, Kentucky, for the Department of the Ohio (U.S.A.). Measured 4,000 acres and contained quartermaster commissary depot, ordnance depot, recruitment center, prison, and hospital in 1865. Third largest U.S. Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) recruiting center in the United States. A "Home for Colored Refugees" at Camp Nelson opened in January 1865. Superintendent(s): Captain Theron E. Hall, Col. Bierbower. Commandant(s): Col. Speed S. Fry, Col Frederick H. Bierbower, Col. James F. Jaquess.

"Camp Nelson" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 158.
"Camp Nelson," History and Culture, National Parks Service, accessed April 26, 2019, https://www.nps.gov/cane/learn/historyculture/index.htm.
Richard D. Sears, Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002).

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