Camp Wood

Residents heard a blast of music from the brass band at brigade headquarters of this Union encampment to ring in the new year of 1862. McCook's Second Division held as many as 40,000 soldiers at its peak in the camp that formed an arc over the north side of town. Union Camp (Fort) Wood was first established here in late 1861 on the north and west sides of town, with a three-gun battery. After the Confederates briefly occupied the town in 1862, the Federals built Fort Craig on the site of an earlier CSA fort, and a log Stockade, as well as Forts Terrill and Willich, along with Batteries Simons and McConnell (originally named Batteries Hale and Slayton), on the north side of the river. These earthworks on the north side of the Green River are on private property.

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