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Columbia soldiers complained about conditions at early war Camp Scott
This illustration shows Camp Scott at the old York Agricultural Fairgrounds in York, Pennsylvania. Very early in the Civil War, Federal authorities converted the fairgrounds into an army base named...
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Sarcastic Gettysburg soldier sent letters home from York’s Camp Scott: Part 1
Shortly after the start of the American Civil War in 1861, the U.S. government established a series of training bases throughout the North. The largest one in Pennsylvania eventually became known as...
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Sarcastic Gettysburg soldier sent letters home from York’s Camp Scott: Part 2
This sketch from the New York Illustrated News shows Camp Scott, a Civil War training facility in York, Pennsylvania. In May 1861, a soldier of the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry using the pen name...
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Sarcastic Gettysburg soldier sent letters home from York’s Camp Scott: Part 3
Union troops train at Camp Scott in York PA in the spring of 1861. Among them were the new recruits of the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry, a three-month regiment which included a company (the “Independent...
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Sarcastic Gettysburg soldier sent letters home from York’s Camp Scott: Part 4
Shortly after the start of the Civil War, a Gettysburg-area soldier in the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry stationed at Camp Scott (above) in York PA mailed a series of letters back to Henry J. Stahle, the...
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