Birth and death of a camp
Subtitle: armistice puts an end to the feverish war activity of Camp Polk, at Raleigh
By: Fred A. Olds
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Military camps; World War, 1914-1918; Engineering and construction; Tank warfare
Other titles: Orphans' friend and Masonic journal.; North Carolinians and the Great War.
Description: The author describes his childhood fascination with old soldiers' camps and describes the rise and subsequent abandonment of Camp Polk, just outside of Raleigh, N.C., located on the same spot as the old Confederate Camp Mangum.  Camp Polk was started with the intention of making it the only Tank camp in the U.S. and was designed to hold 16,000 men.  The author describes the barracks, drill field, trenches, pistol school, and, finally, the stop work order that resulted in the camp's dismemberment before it was completed.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed May 7, 2002)

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Transcribed from: Birth and death of a camp : armistice puts an end to the feverish war activity of Camp Polk, at Raleigh / Fred A. Olds. 1, 6 p. ; 49 cm. Origianlly published in: Orphans' friend and Masonic journal. Vol. 43, no. 43 (Jan. 17, 1919) Caption title.

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