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As the Civil War raged in the mid-1860s, a bucolic pocket of Kentucky stood out as a beacon of freedom for enslaved men and women, though it proved elusive as the nation struggled over what was morally right.

Camp Nelson National Monument was established by the U.S. Army in the summer of 1863 as a massive military support installation during the Civil War. It stands as a tribute to that American legacy.