The birth of Camp Jackson
Subtitle: a collection of photographs, maps and papers documenting the development of Camp Jackson near Columbia, South Carolina. Including a discussion of the need for training camps and soldiers in World War I, the offer presented by the city of Columbia to the Army to help fill that need, the construction of Camp Jackson and the structures built there, the units and people who populated the camp, and the training that converted [the] average American citizens into the world's greatest soldiers
By: compiled by U.S. Army Combat Training Museum
Publisher: U.S. Army Basic Combat Training Museum
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: United States; World War, 1914-1918; Military construction operations; United States. Army; Military bases; Basic training (Military education); Engineering and construction; Pictorial works; History
Other titles: The Birth of Camp Jackson, Columbia S. Carolina, Established 1917, National Army Cantonment
Notes: Shipping list no.: 2016-0034-S.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Need - A background of the war in Europe, why the United States entered the war in 1917, and how the United States answered the need for trained Soldiers; title: 2. The Offer - An account of how Columbia solicited the Army to build a military cantonment in the middle of South Carolina; title: 3. The Construction - A history of how a cantonment for 44,000 Soldiers was built in less than six months; title: 4. The Buildings - A description of the buildings and infrastructure constructed at Camp Jackson to train an Army; title: 5. The Units - A record of the units who passed through Camp Jackson from June 1917 to October 1919; title: 6. The People - A listing of the significant people who populated Camp Jackson during the Great War; title: 7. The Training - A brief sketch of the training that was necessary to mold average American citizens into the world's greatest infantry and artillery Soldiers.