A major Union supply depot and recruitment centre for United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War, Camp Nelson was designated a National Monument under the Antiquities Act in 2018 -- 155 years after it was initially established. The site…
Funded by a prominent group of Scottish-Americans – organized by then-U.S. Consul in Edinburgh, Wallace Bruce, and including philanthropist Andrew Carnegie – this monument was dedicated in Edinburgh's Old Calton Cemetery on 21 August 1893. Ostensibly…
