Civil War and Camp Nelson
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#28 - Dennis Townsend | The Architect
Episode 028 w/ Dennis Townsend —Dennis Townsend is an Architect and the District 5 Supervisor. On this episode we discuss his upcoming election, childhood growing up, leadership, service, faith, wrestling, forest management, water, architecture and much more. Townsend’s District 5 includes Porterv…
GNMP Winter Lecture Series- February 19, 2022 – Camp Nelson and America's Complicated Soul
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Camp Nelson History Walk
Take a self-guided audio tour of Camp Nelson National Monument in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Ranger Steve T. Phan will guide you through nine different sites in this historic park, beginning with the U.S. Army's Officers' Spring and ending with Fort McKee. Be sure to bring water and wear comfortable…
That Men Might Be Free
This episode of The Wabash Inn Mess features guest Bob Bell, historian and re-enactor, a member of the 12th USCT Heavy Artillery living history group. Bob shares with us the story of the United States Colored Troops and the legacy they formed at Camp Nelson, KY.
Bob takes us through the origins …
Frank X Walker explores enslavement and Civil War in new poetry collection
Frank X Walker shares poems from his new collection Load in Nine Times at the Boyle County Public Library(Cheri Lawson / WEKU)
In his 13th poetry collection, Frank X Walker explores the lives of Black Families in Kentucky, before, during, and after the Civil War.
A note that this story includ…
Hidden Secrets
In June 2020 a Black Lives Matter protest erupts in Jessamine County, Kentucky. It soon transforms into a campaign to destroy the Confederate statue that looms behind them on Main Street.
As historian and local resident David Swartz covers this effort, he also investigates the history of this bea…
A Rival Monument
Archaeologist Stephen McBride wants to emancipate Jessamine from the Lost Cause. He zeroes in on Camp Nelson, which has nearly disappeared from the county’s memory. Farmers have leveled the earthworks, and developers are eyeing the site. Camp Nelson’s significance has also been buried by racial ho…
The Bull and Camp Nelson
General William “Bull” Nelson of Mason County, secretly fought to keep Kentucky in the Union and was then famously murdered in Louisville's Galt House Hotel by Jefferson Davis (not the Jefferson Davis you’re thinking of).
Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky, was named in his honor. The incr…
Camp Nelson
In 1863 and 1864 a place called Camp Nelson in Kentucky became a focal point for men wanting to join the Union army and families fleeing the Civil War…
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