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Event: Camp Dick Robinson is established by General William “Bull” Nelson in nearby Garrard County as the first US Army enlistment center in Kentucky.

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Meeting: Pro-Unionist state legislature elected in Kentucky.

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Event: Kentucky State government declares neutrality. An estimated two-thirds of White Kentuckians supported the U.S. government.

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Event: American Civil War begins after Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

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Event: November 6th – of 1,202 votes cast in Jessamine County, only three are for the Kentucky-born presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln.

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Event: At a meeting at the county courthouse, Jessamine County Democrats demonstrate their support for the outcome of the Dred Scott case and declare the “rights of citizens to hold any species of property.”

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Meeting: Jessamine County Pro-Slavery Lodge, No. 23, passes a resolution against the discussion of “anti-slavery doctrines, either publicly or privately.”

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Meeting: Nicholasville officials establish patrols to prevent “too free an intercourse of the negroes with each other.”

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Event: At a meeting at Mingo Tavern in Jessamine County’s Nicholasville, town trustees authorize the whipping of slaves found traveling without a pass.

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Meeting: A state law is passed in Kentucky prohibiting the immigration of free African Americans to the state, with the aim of limiting the size of the Black population and the exposure of the enslaved to their free counterparts.

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