Original sentence: San Diego County had Camp Wright established to cover the southern overland approach to California across the Colorado Desert from Fort Yuma; Fort Yuma was on the west bank of the Colorado River, Fort Bragg was on the Mendocino County coast and Camp Babbitt outside the town of Visalia, in Tulare County
Edited sentence: In the north of the state were several forts Fort Bragg was on the Mendocino County coast, Fort Humbolt, and Fort Bidwell in Modoc County.San Diego County had Camp Wright established to cover the southern overland approach to California across the Colorado Desert from Fort Yuma; Fort Yuma was on the west bank of the Colorado River, and Camp Babbitt outside the town of Visalia, in Tulare County