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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-695
CAMP NELSON HERITAGE NATIONAL MONUMENT ACT
MAY 21, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 5655]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5655) to establish the Camp Nelson Heritage National
Monument in the State of Kentucky as a unit of the National Park
System, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report
favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill
do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 5655 is to establish the Camp Nelson Herit-
age National Monument in the State of Kentucky as a unit of the
National Park System.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 5655 establishes the Camp Nelson Heritage National Monu-
ment in Nicholasville, Kentucky, as a unit of the National Park
System.
Located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, and founded
in 1863, Camp Nelson was constructed by Major General Ambrose
Burnside and the 9th Corps of the Army of Ohio to serve as a sup-
ply depot, hospital facility, and training and recruiting center for
the Union Army during the Civil War.1
Camp Nelson provided the Union Army with over 10,000 African
American soldiers, making it the third largest recruiting and train-
ing depot for African American soldiers in the country. African
Camp Nelson. National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, www.nps.gov/nr/
travel/underground/Camp Nelson.html.
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