TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sears,Richard D.
TI  - Camp Nelson, Kentucky: a Civil War history 
SN  - 9780813149523
AV  - F459 .C367 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - African American soldiers
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Sources
KW  - Freed persons
KW  - Antislavery movements
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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 --
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