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Fort McPherson was a U.S. Army military base located in Atlanta, Georgia, bordering the northern edge of the city of East Point, Georgia.It was the headquarters for the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, Southeast Region; the U.S. Army Forces Command; the U.S. Army Reserve Command; the U.S. Army Central.
Fort McPherson; Fort Oglethorpe; Idaho Idaho Launch Complex; Illinois Camp Lincoln; Camp Ellis; Camp Grant; Eighth Regiment Armory (Chicago) Fort Sheridan; George Field;
Fort Lewis, Washington, reorganized and redesignated as the 47th Combat Support Hospital, 21 May 1973; 48th Surgical Hospital, reorganized and redesignated as the 128th Evacuation Hospital, 1 May 1943 [26] 61st Surgical Hospital, Fort Meade, Maryland, reorganized and redesignated as the 93rd Evacuation Hospital, 19 August 1942 [96]
The 8th and 22nd Infantry Regiments also supported the Reserve units’ conduct of the Citizens Military Training Camps held at Camp McClellan and Fort McPherson. The 8th Infantry Brigade, reinforced by the active elements of the 4th Tank Company, 83rd Field Artillery Regiment, and 4th Engineer Regiment held annual maneuvers at Fort Benning ...
The exact population of German POWs in World War I is difficult to ascertain because they were housed in the same facilities used for German-American internment, but there were known to be 406 German POWs at Fort Douglas and 1,373 at Fort McPherson. [5] [6] The prisoners built furniture and worked on local roads.
During the interwar years, units of the 328th Infantry performed individual training at weeknight and weekend assemblies at the armory of the Florida National Guard's 116th Field Artillery in Tampa, and unit training during annual two-week encampments with the 8th or 22nd Infantry Regiments at Fort Screven and Fort McPherson, Georgia, or Fort ...
The fort was abandoned in 1880. A cemetery was created along with the fort. In 1873, 20 acres (81,000 m 2) were set aside for Fort McPherson National Cemetery, and the remains interred in the original post cemetery were moved to it. [5]
The personnel of the regiment typically held their Inactive Training Period meetings at the Chamber of Commerce Assembly Hall or the Courtland Street Armory, and conducted summer training most years with the 22nd Infantry Regiment at Camp McClellan, Alabama, Fort McPherson, Georgia, or Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, or with the 8th Infantry Regiment ...