page_title: Fort Gordon
section_title: World War I era
hierarchical_section_title: Fort Gordon / History / World War I era
caption_attribution_description: English: Human American Eagle
context_page_description: Fort Gordon, formerly known as Camp Gordon, is a United States Army installation established in October 1941. It is the current home of the United States Army Signal Corps, United States Army Cyber Corps, and Cyber Center of Excellence. It was once the home of The Provost Marshal General School and Civil Affairs School. The fort is located southwest of Augusta, Georgia. One of the major components of the installation is Advanced Individual Training for Signal Corps military occupational specialties. Signals Intelligence has become more visible and comprises more and more of the fort's duties.
  It is named after John Brown Gordon, a Major General in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. Fort Gordon is one of ten United States Army installations named for officers who led military units of the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
context_section_description: The United States Army established many war-training camps during World War I. Chamblee, northeast of Atlanta, was selected for one of the state's largest army cantonments. It was named Camp Gordon in honor of John Brown Gordon, who was a major general in the Confederate army, a Georgia governor, a U.S. senator, and a businessman. The camp opened in July 1917, becoming a training site and home of the famous 82nd Division. The division was composed of men from several different states, but men from Georgia made up almost half its number. Among the men trailed at Camp Gordon, during that period, was the future Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Alvin York. This camp was in operation until the sale of real estate and buildings was ordered in 1920.  It was abandoned in September 1921.  During WWI the US Army Camp Hancock was located in Augusta, Georgia in the general vicinity of the current Daniel Field.  Camp Hancock was the home of the 28th Infantry Division from Pennsylvania.  Camp Hancock was abandoned and turned over to a caretaker detachment March 27, 1919.  From 1919 until 1941, there was no army installation named Camp Gordon in existence, nor was there an installation located near Augusta, Georgia.
caption: The Human American Eagle, taken at Camp Gordon, 1918, 12,500 people
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