Hidden History of Civil War in Kentucky Subect of New Play

This sound like one not to be missed:

One of the more painful episodes of Kentucky's Civil War history is the subject of a new play.

Set in 1864, Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow! tells the story of how 400 African-American women and children were ordered out of Camp Nelson, the Army camp in southern Jessamine County where their husbands and fathers were trained as Union soldiers.

The two-act play, to be performed June 5 and 6 at Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, is the first dramatization of the expulsion. The story is told through the family of Pvt. Joseph Miller, a soldier who wrote a first-person account of how his family was driven out.

Lonnie Brown of Louisville, a teacher and ex-Marine, said it is a "humbling experience" to portray Miller, who is buried at Camp Nelson National Cemetery just south of the Civil War park.

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Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow! will be performed at 7 p.m. June 5 and 6 at Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park.

The park is off U.S. 27 about 6 miles south of Nicholasville and just north of Camp Nelson National Cemetery.

Admission is $15 for show and dinner. The dinner will feature "a sampling" of food from the Civil War era, such as beef with carmelized onions, summer salad, vegetables of the season and bread pudding.

There will also be a cannon firing.

For tickets, go to www.bluegrassarts.org or call the Bluegrass Arts Association at (859) 881-8247.