A view inside Camp Cameron Style Barracks

This is another sketch of a Camp Meigs barrack.

From "Record of the Service of the Forty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in North Carolina August 1862-May 1863, Gardner, James Brown, Privately Printed, Boston, 1887

Dan Sullivan

A few more Camp Cameron related images.

This is another image of the barracks at Camp Meigs, these were the same style as those at Camp Cameron.

From "Record of the Service of the Forty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in North Carolina August 1862-May 1863, Gardner, James Brown, Privately Printed, Boston, 1887

This a sketch of Camp Meigs. 

Josiah Porter, Captain of the 1st Light Battery. 

DAN SULLIVAN

The War Department Takes Over

In April of 1862 the War Department became responsible for recruiting, mustering, subsistence and the transportation of new recruits in all states. All this work would be done by the military. The new commander for Mass. was Lt. Col. Hannibal Day. It took some time for the states to get used to this new arrangement. (1)'

(1) A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War, Schouler, William, E. P. Dutton & Co. Boston, 1868, pg. 329 & 330

DAN SULLIVAN