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

Join the National Park Service (NPS) for the 4th Annual Winter Lecture Series at Camp Nelson National Monument! This event features 5 programs on select Saturdays beginning in January 2025. The programs take place at the Reconstructed Barracks and are free and open to the public.

Saturday, February 22, 2025: "ASecred 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.