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Camp Carlisle (1861 - 1864),
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Union Army
During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union (American Civil War), Union of the collective U.S. st ...
training camp from 1861 to 1864. It was located on Wheeling Island in the
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...
at what is now Zane and North Wabash Streets in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was renamed Camp Willey later in the Civil War.