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Marker Dedication

COLORED TROOPS HONORED--Civil War re-enactors and dignitaries stand behind a flag that represents the 12th US Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, before the dedication a historical marker to the first U.S. colored troops at Camp Nelson by the Kentucky Historical Society, at Constitution Square in Danville, Ky. In May 1864, nearly 250 black men, most of them slaves, marched from Boyle County to Camp Nelson in Jessamine County to enlist in the Union army. When they reached camp, Union Col. Andrew Clark initially refused to accept them because no policy allowed for the recruitment of slaves. Despite attempts by a few local slave owners to reclaim some of the men, the recruits were accepted into the Army, causing a Union policy change that allowed able-bodied African-American men, including slaves, to enlist. Over 5,000 U.S. Colored Troops were eventually recruited at Camp Nelson. (AP Photo/Clay Jackson/The Advocate Messenger)

(AP Photo/Clay Jackson/The Advocate Messenger)

COLORED TROOPS HONORED--Civil War re-enactors and dignitaries stand behind a flag that represents the 12th US Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, before the dedication a historical marker to the first U.S. colored troops at Camp Nelson by the Kentucky Historical Society, at Constitution Square in Danville, Ky. In May 1864, nearly 250 black men, most of them slaves, marched from Boyle County to Camp Nelson in Jessamine County to enlist in the Union army. When they reached camp, Union Col. Andrew Clark initially refused to accept them because no policy allowed for the recruitment of slaves. Despite attempts by a few local slave owners to reclaim some of the men, the recruits were accepted into the Army, causing a Union policy change that allowed able-bodied African-American men, including slaves, to enlist. Over 5,000 U.S. Colored Troops were eventually recruited at Camp Nelson. (AP Photo/Clay Jackson/The Advocate Messenger)

 

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