Speaker: Camp Nelson

Winter Lecture Series: Joseph E. Brint & Betty J. Gorin, “A Sacred Charge for a Grateful Nation: Union Dead and National Cemeteries.”

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.