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

12th USCHA (Reactivated) established

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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