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Another archaeological survey of Camp Nelson uncovers refugee encampment site between former locations of Bakery and commissary and QM warehouses.

Any enslaved man is allowed to enlist in the US Army without permission from their enslaver.

Archaeological excavations of the former Home for Colored Refugees at Camp Nelson takes place, led by University of Kentucky.

As a direct result of the November 1864 expulsion of refugees, Congress passes legislation, emancipating the wives and children of USCT soldiers.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court John McLean, an anti-slavery egalitarian Methodist from Nicholasville, was one of two justices to dissent to the majority ruling of the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. The ruling stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and could not, therefore, expect protection from the Federal government or the courts.

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

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.”

Battle of Mill Springs in Nancy, Kentucky – a significant US victory that solidified Union support in Kentucky.

Battle of Perryville is a tactical US victory that ended the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. It was the largest battle fought in Kentucky during the war.

Berea College, initially established in 1855, is reopened as the Berea Literary Institute by Rev. John G. Fee and colleagues with whom he had worked at Camp Nelson. Among the new students enrolled are Black soldiers recruited at Camp Nelson and recently mustered out of the army.

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