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Event: 125th US Colored Infantry are mustered out of service, and the last USCT regiment to be discharged.

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Event: 12th USCHA (Reactivated) established

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Event: 322 Black men enlist with the United States Colored Troops at Camp Nelson; the single largest recruitment day in the camp’s history. Between 1864 and 1865, over 10,000 men enlisted with the USCTs at Camp Nelson.

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Event: A group of Confederate veterans hold their first meeting about the erection of the Jessamine County Confederate statue at a drugstore on Main Street, Nicholasville.

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Event: A movement is begun in Louisville, KY, to erect a monument to the Union soldiers of Kentucky. The movement succeeds in raising funds to lay the monument’s foundations in Cave Hill Cemetery and a dedication service is held later in the year. Efforts to finish the monument are halted when the federal government consolidated Cave Hill as a National Cemetery in 1867.

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Event: After planned highway construction raises local concern for the former Camp Nelson grounds, Kentucky Heritage Council award Jessamine County Fiscal Court a grant to produce a preservation management plan for the site. The Camp Nelson Restoration and Preservation Foundation.

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Event: After years of community protest, Kentucky's Historic Properties Advisory Commission votes to remove the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky State Capitol.

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Event: Amendment to the Constitution is ratified by three-fourths of states, abolishing slavery in the United States. Kentucky ratified the amendment in 1976.

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