Name: Winter Lecture Series: Union Dead and National Cemeteries in Kentucky
Start: 2025-02-22T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-22T12:30:00-05:00
Location: 6614 Old Danville Road Loop 2, Nicholasville, KY, United States, Kentucky 40356

Winter Lecture Series: Union Dead and National Cemeteries in Kentucky

Join the National Park Service for the 4th Annual Winter Lecture Series at Camp Nelson National Monument! The special programs feature guest speakers who present on a variety of topic related to the Civil War Era. The presentations take place at the park's Reconstructed Barracks on select Saturdays. The programs are free and open to the public.
Joseph E. Brent and Betty J. Gorin, co-authors of Union Civil War Burials in Kentucky (2024), will discuss the post-war efforts of Capt. Edmund Burke Whitman, Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers, to locate the Union dead in the military Department of Tennessee as recorded in his and his associates’ journals, efforts that eventually led to the establishment of the National Cemetery System, including Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky.