The Camp Beauregard Memorial, outside Water Valley, Kentucky on Kentucky state road 2422 northeast of town, marks the site of a Confederate States Army encampment named for General P. G. T. Beauregard. The camp was situated to protect the right flank of the Confederate encampment at Columbus, Kentucky.
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| Nearest city | Water Valley, Kentucky |
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| Built | 1909 |
| MPS | Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 97000698[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 17, 1997 |
Background
editWhile an active military installation, from September 1861 to March 1, 1862, it trained 5,000-6,000 soldiers for the Confederacy. However, the place was disease-ridden, resulting in 1,000-1,500 deaths at the camp. The diseases included cerebrospinal meningitis, pneumonia, and typhoid fever with poor weather and lack of sufficient supplies for the troops contributing to the dire situation. In a single day 75 cases of typhoid and pneumonia were reported.[2] Under the direction of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment's Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas H. Logwood, it was destroyed. United States forces occupied the abandoned camp shortly thereafter.[3]
History
editIn 1909 the Kentucky Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy placed a small monument dedicated to the dead soldiers at the site entrance, and then an eleven-foot monument within the cemetery. A concrete base was added in 1930.[4] There were plans for a larger Civil War monument, but they never materialized.[2]
The surrounding cemetery is believed by some to be haunted.[5] On July 17, 1997, Camp Beauregard Memorial was one of sixty different monuments related to the American Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Two other monuments on the list are in Graves County, both in Mayfield: the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield and the Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield.[6]
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b Cunningham, Samuel. Confederate Veteran (S.A. Cunningham, 1916) p. 183.
- ^ Mayfield, Kentucky Britannica Online
- ^ Brent, Joseph. Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley NRHP Nomination Form (Kentucky Heritage Council, 1997)
- ^ Viewing Place: "Camp Beauregard" Forgotten US.com
- ^ Joseph E. Brent (January 8, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935" (pdf). National Park Service.
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