Camp Beauregard
military base, Mayfield, Kentucky, United States
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Camp Beauregard was a Confederate base established in 1861 near Mayfield, Kentucky, during the American Civil War. It was evacuated in 1862 and subsequently captured by Union forces. The base was named after Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. Mayfield itself is a city in Graves county, southwestern Kentucky, and was settled around 1820. The city's development was boosted by the arrival of a railroad in 1854, making it a market center for tobacco, livestock, and grain.12
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