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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
he left the hall of legislation, prepared for the inevitable conflict for the National life. At about the same time, William Nelson, another loyal Kentuckian, established a similar rendezvous in Garrard County, in Eastern Kentucky, called Camp Dick Robinson. Both of these men were afterward major-generals in the National Volunteer service. The Government encouraged these Union movements. All Kentucky, within a hundred miles south of the Ohio River, had been made a military department, at the head of which was placed Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter, who, on the 14th of May, had been commissioned a brigadier-general of Volunteers. Headquarters at camp Dick Robinson. When Union camps were formed in Kentucky, Magoffin became concerned about the violated neutrality of his State, and he finally wrote to the President, Aug. 19, 1861. by the hands of a committee, urging him to remove from the limits of Kentucky the forces organized in camps and mustered into the Nationa