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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.

Following the Kentucky State Colored Convention, held in Frankfort, delegates submit a document to the US Senate challenging the rise of racial violence in the state, pointing to “organized bands of desperate and lawless men, mainly composed of soldiers of the late rebel armies, armed, disciplined, and disguised” as the perpetrators.

Congregants of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church in Louisville, KY, lead an unprecedented protest against racial discrimination, with a focus on the segregation of streetcars.

the Freedman’s Bureau is withdrawn from Kentucky. In turn, local and state authorities withdraw their protections for Black citizens.

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

Congress authorizes the organization of permanent, all-Black Regular Army regiments for the first time. The units include former USCT veterans from Camp Nelson, who enlisted in the Regular Army, becoming the first Buffalo Soldiers.

The US Army officially closes Camp Nelson. Only about 250 refugees remain at the Home for Colored Refugees. Former refugees and USCT veterans establish the community of Ariel (today known as Hall). Many residents worked in agriculture and the distillery industry, and supported the Ariel Academy for over fifty years.

The First Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky is held in Lexington. Delegates assert that “the gallant heroic behavior of the Colored Soldiers of the American Army” during the war affirms their status as part and parcel of the “Great American Body Politic.”

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.

The federal government appropriate 8 acres of land for use as a cemetery for Union soldiers: Camp Nelson National Cemetery is established.

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