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The largest and best known camp was near Plattsburgh, New York under the command of Captain Halstead Dorey. Trainees included Grenville Clark, Willard Straight, Robert Bacon, Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, and Bishop James De Wolf Perry. [2] [3] [4] Some 40,000 men (all college graduates) attended the Plattsburgh camp and other sites.
The "Old Stone Barracks" is the last remaining structure of a proposed quadrangle of early U.S. Army barracks built at Plattsburgh, New York in 1838. Of the four main buildings initially planned for the Plattsburgh post, only two were ever constructed, an officer's barracks and an enlisted barracks which formed an "L" shape.
The small regular army would primarily serve as a training agency. This proposal ultimately failed, but it fostered the Plattsburg Movement , a series of summer training camps that in 1915 and 1916 hosted some 40,000 men largely of elite social classes, and the later Citizens' Military Training Camps that trained some 400,000 men from 1921 to 1940.
United States Oval Historic District is a national historic district located on Plattsburgh Air Force Base at Plattsburgh in Clinton County, New York.The district includes 26 contributing buildings and one contributing structure.
Straight was born on January 31, 1880, in Oswego, New York, [1] the son of two Yankee missionaries to China and Japan, Henry H. Straight (1846-1886) and née Emma Dickerman (1850–1890). [3] Emma was described as an artist who "loved poetry, pictures — beauty in all its forms — but above all else, people."
Oct. 21—PLATTSBURGH — Many wheel or walk past the Plattsburgh Memorial Chapel and appreciate its timeless beauty. Its history is revealed as the Clinton County Historical Association (CCHA ...
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Five of the 11 citizens brought back were children, and one non-U.S. citizen child -- the 9-year-old sibling of one of the other childr ... US repatriates 11 citizens from notorious camp for ...