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Camp Nelson and the men who enlisted there
Jessamine County, Kentucky
Erinod333 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A Union supply depot became the third largest recruiting centre for Black troops in the country, about ten thousand enlisted, and enlistment was the only legal route to freedom in a slave state exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation. Their families followed and were expelled into the cold in November 1864. Over a hundred died, and the outcry pushed Congress toward freeing the wives and children of Black soldiers.
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