Posted on 10/30/2018 10:52:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Trump used his executive powers to designate Camp Nelson as a national monument, establishing a 380-acre site in Kentucky to honor African Americans’ role as soldiers during the Civil War. Camp Nelson is the first national monument designation under President Trump.
Established as a Union supply depot and hospital during the Civil War, Camp Nelson became a recruitment and training center for African American soldiers and a refugee camp for their wives and children. Thousands of slaves risked their lives escaping to this site with the hope of securing their freedom and, ultimately, controlling their futures by aiding in the destruction of slavery.
Union soldiers at Camp Nelson
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Complete silence from the talking heads on the alphabet networks. I can already hear what the Left will say… “This only proves how racist President Donald Trump really is… only a racist wanting to cover their racism would build a monument to blacks….” or something like that!
Per the Dept. Of The Interior:
“Camp Nelson, and all the patriots who have ties to it, holds an incredible place in America’s history, and President Trump’s action to designate Camp Nelson as a National Monument will ensure the ongoing protection of the site and the story,” Secretary Zinke said. “America’s parks, battlefields and monuments tell the story of who we are as Americans. Camp Nelson was instrumental as a refuge for escaped and emancipated slaves. The Camp tells the story about Americans who risked absolutely everything they have and everyone they love to fight for their freedom, the cause of liberty and to preserve the Union. I thank the President for using the Antiquities Act as it was truly intended and I can think of no better place for his use of the Act than to recognize African Americans for the sacrifices they made for this country and for the contributions they made for all Americans freedom than by elevating Camp Nelson to National Monument status. I look forward to future generations visiting this site and learning about our nation’s history.”
“We are excited to share this story with our great nation,” said David West, Jessamine County Judge Executive. “The historical, cultural and personal significance of Camp Nelson will inspire and enlighten visitors for generations.”
“It’s an honor to have this place designated a National Monument in honor of those who fought to preserve the Union for the generations to come. These are hollowed grounds here, let it be a park, let it remain a park,” said Jim Frye, retired U.S. Navy Senior Chief and descendant of the U.S. Colored Troops including Smith Lackey (Tevis) and Jefferson Perkins, and African American refugee women.
“Camp Nelson offers exceptional insight into the experiences of our nation’s African-American soldiers during the Civil War,”American Battlefield Trust President James Lighthizer said. “Its landscapes and visitor facilities make vivid the struggles of these soldiers, their wives and children toward a new and uncertain freedom amid America’s deadliest conflict. Preserving the site as part of America’s national park system honors their sacrifices, and will help communicate the camp’s dramatic military and emancipation history to new and larger audiences.”
Camp Nelson build cabins for refugees from slavery, generally the families of the soldiers. Although wives and children of the enlisted men were still not legally free, they were legally entitled to sanctuary. Finally, on March 3, 1865, an Act of Congress officially emancipated the wives, children, and mothers of U.S. Colored Troops. This provided legal protection for the refugees at Camp Nelson and an additional incentive for African American men to enlist in the Union Army.
Liberal: “Tear it down!...oh, wait...*head explodes*”
MAGA
Wait. I thought we were supposed to have an Antifa/ISIS like attitude towards our Civil War heroes and tear down and destroy every last statue and reminder of our racist past.
I’m so confused here.
The fourth guy from the right is up to something no good.
Pop didn’t get here until the 1920’s and fought in WWII against his country of birth.
As for the civil war, well, it was a lousy time to be an immigrant landing up north here.
Italy, to clear that up.
Excellent
Saint-Gaudens' memorial to the Mass. 54th.
The man leaves no stone un-turned - tireless genius at work!
I understand that the black soldiers fought well. So well that the confederates often murdered them — and their white officers — when they were taken prisoner.
You put a balm on it?
Who told you to put a balm on it?
I bet THIS won’t be on the evening news.......................
Now you’re in for it.
And that went up in 1884.
Murdering soldiers you capture usually doesn’t work out so well. All you do is teach your enemy that surrender is a very bad idea, and you enrage them. The SS cutthroats found that out after what they did at Malmedy.
He definitely has a gift for out-flanking his opponents!
Wonder if the Negro soldiers who volunteered to fight for the Confederacy will get a monument????
I have to admit; I am a bit shocked by this. I would have thought that a National Memorial like this would have been created long ago. Oh well, glad someone finally got around to doing it. Credit where credit is due; those men put their lives on the line above and beyond what normal men did.
FWIW, an ancestor was a white officer (brevet Maj.) in a all black artillery unit in the Army of The Tennessee. Had he been captured, he would have ended his life at the end of a rope or shot.
That would be racist.
Liberal heads are exploding all over America...
Polls indicate black voters moving from Democrat to Republican
President Trump sends 5,000 more troops to the border
President Trump says he may end anchor babies with Executive Order (Obama left his pen and phone in the Oval office so why not use it for something good).
Mueller has a #metoo problem
And the list goes on...
I am thinking the President is trying to over load the news cycle. The media can only handle one big story at a time and before they can co-ordinate their talking point another story breaks.
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