Kentucky’s slow and winding route to emancipation is getting more attention, thanks to Camp Nelson’s rolling hills and palisades becoming a national monument site in 2018 after years of ...

At a Union Army camp in Kentucky, enslaved men, women, and children struggled for their lives and fought to be free An 1865 image of the Union Army encampment at Camp Nelson shows army vehicles ...

Camp Nelson National Monument will become the second national park site to commemorate African American history in Kentucky. Statement by Theresa Pierno, President and CEO for National Parks ...

An excavation at Kentucky’s Camp Nelson National Monument found an unprecedented Civil War photo studio on the site. And many soldiers who posed for portraits apparently dyed their hair.

“Camp Nelson tells the story of the struggle of freedom," said Kentucky Congressmen Andy Barr. “It's part of the heritage of Jessamine County, it’s part of the heritage of Kentucky, it’s ...

There were 250 African-American men in 1863 from Boyle County that marched together, to enlist at Camp Nelson. But Kentucky wasn’t recruiting African-American soldiers.

More than 10,000 either enlisted in the Civil War on the Union’s side or trained at Camp Nelson, which became a national monument in 2018. Linda Blackford: On Juneteenth, ...