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Extract from Report of Special Inspection of Camp Nelson, Ky. dated May 13, 1865.

[[left margin]] Colored Refugee's Home [[/left margin]]
Under authority from Maj. Genl. Palmer a camp has been established for contraband women and children, the families of soldiers enlisting in the Army. About 1,700 of these people are now provided for, furnished with Quarters, rations and fuel. They are coming into Camp very rapidly, 907 were received during the month of April, and the Q.M.D is taxed to the utmost to erect barracks with sufficient dispatch to provide for them.

Mr. T.E. Hall, formerly A.Q.M at this post, is the Superintendent. He was absent at the time of my visit - is represented as an energetic & efficient man; when A.Q.M. he was deemed an honest and active officer, but somewhat extravagant & injudicious in his expenditures. The buildings erected consist of the Superintendents house (75 x 30 feet and two stories in height) rather a munificent provision for this officer and his assistants) a Dining room and Kitchen (100 x 30 feet with two wings, each 50 x 30 feet), a Work Shop of about the same dimensions and of two stories, which is now occupied by women and children as barracks, four buildings, also used as barracks, 25 x 75 each and containing 120 refugees, and (30) Thirty Cottages 32 x 16 feet divided into two