Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Camp Nelson, Kentucky : a Civil War history / Richard D. Sears.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, (c)2002.Description: 1 online resource (lxxxiii, 401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813149523
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F459 .C367 2002
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Black recruitment -- Soldiers, missionaries, refugees -- The expulsion -- The refugee home -- Administrative troubles and the Belle Mitchell Incident -- Closing the camp -- Claiming the remains.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Subject: 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 --
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number URL Status Date due Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction F459.35 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn606914560

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

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. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL

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 --

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.