Civil War historian Joni House was raised in central ... Samuel Truehart was a private in the 5th United States Cavalry and was mustered into that unit here at Camp Nelson in September of 1864.

They fought against the Seminoles and Mexicans, and with the mentioned 1861 law, in the context of the outbreak of the Civil War, they were consolidated into a corps to which a couple more regiments ...

“In reenacting we don’t suffer quite the hardships the soldiers did back then,” West Williams of the Federal cavalry told me ...

By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist Some 80 men of Company E of the 5th US Colored Cavalry were driving a herd of cattle from Camp Nelson, near Nicholasville, to Louisville to supply food for those ...