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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.
Camp Wheeler; Fort Gillem; Fort McPherson; Fort Oglethorpe; Idaho Idaho Launch Complex; Illinois Camp Lincoln; Camp Ellis; Camp Grant; Eighth Regiment Armory (Chicago)
The fort was built by troops of the 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry using cedar logs cut in Cottonwood Canyon. [2] It was completed in October 1863. Originally named Cantonment McKean, on February 26, 1866, it was renamed Fort McPherson in the honor of Major General James B. McPherson. However, it was always popularly known as Fort Cottonwood.
The United States Department of War designated three locations as POW camps during the war: Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia and Douglas in Utah. [4] 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 ...
Camp Hospital No. 119, Camp Devens, Massachusetts, July 1919 Camp Hospital No. 120, Camp Gordon, Georgia, July 1919 Camp Hospital No. 121, Consolidated with American Red Cross Military Hospital No. 3, June 1919
As German-American relations worsened in the spring of 1917, nine sailors successfully escaped detention, prompting Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to act immediately on plans to transfer the other 750 to detention camps at Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe in late March 1917, [24] where they were isolated from civilian detainees. [25]
Fort McPherson; Fort Moore, closed to the public; Fort Pulaski, ... Camp Hero; Fort Jay; Fort Lafayette; Fort Lévis; Madison Barracks; Fort Michie; Fort Montgomery ...
The training of the Reserve units was usually conducted at Camp McClellan, and frequently, at the regimental home stations of 4th Division units. 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.