The camp was renamed for Brigadier General Allison Nelson, commander of the 10th Texas Infantry Regiment, after he died there in October 1862.

In 1905, Confederate veterans located 429 graves and reinterred the remains on land donated for a cemetery near the original camp site.

They placed 429 limestone markers, all marked "Unknown Soldier CSA", and erected a 12-foot obelisk to memorialize those buried here.

Improperly maintained after the death of the last Civil War Veterans, the site was ultimately overtaken by forest undergrowth.

[2][3] The cemetery was reclaimed before the end of the century, however, after local high school teachers, members of the Cabot High School Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, Future Farmers of America students, and other area residents embarked on a restoration project during the 1980s with state funding.