Tennessee County Named For A Jurist Who Founded Memphis

Tennessee County Named For A Jurist Who Founded Memphis

Tennessee County Named For A Jurist Who Founded Memphis

Tennessee County Named For A Jurist Who Founded Memphis

By: Admin | Date: November 11, 2011 | Categories:

The title of this article vents a sense that Kentuckians have about the ambivalent position of the state throughout the Civil War! Kentucky was a border state. There was a star in both the Confederate Flag and the Union Flag for the state. It never withdrew from the Union, yet it is regarded by many as a Confederate state. It sent soldiers to both sides in the War. It is the birthplace of both Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. It suffered through reconstruction along with the rest of the South.

I just returned from a Civil War tour through some of Kentucky’s Civil war battle sites and here’s a report on one of the sites that I saw.

Camp Nelson is the only site of it’s kind in the US not engulfed by urban development. It was an important quartermaster and commissary depot, recruitment center and hospital facility located in Jessamine County. It was the largest encampment outside of Louisville in the state of Kentucky. It was one of the most important places where African American troops were enlisted and trained in the War. Eight regiments of Colored Troops, as African American troops were then designated, were trained at Camp Nelson. A refugee camp for the families of former slaves was also established there.


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