Camp Lapwai was a

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encampment in

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, present-day

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. It was established by Company E,

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. After being mustered in at

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, they were ordered on October 19, 1862, to Camp Lapwai near the Nez Perce Agency.District of Oregon, Special Order No 76
/ref> Joined there at the beginning of November by Company "F", 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, they built the encampment. Camp Lapwai was renamed

Fort Lapwai Fort Lapwai (1862–1884), was a Federal government of the United States, federal Fortification#North America, fort in present-day Lapwai, Idaho, Lapwai in North Central Idaho, north central Idaho, United States. On the Nez Perce people#Nez P ...

in 1863; the new

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was also established in 1863.

Garrisons

* Company E, 1st Regiment Washington Territory Volunteer Infantry October, October 1862 - June 1864 * Company "F", 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, November, 1862 - May 1865.

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Lapwai Lapwai is a city in the Northwestern United States, northwest United States, in Nez Perce County, Idaho, Nez Perce County, Idaho. Its population was 1,137 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, and it is the seat of government of the Nez Pe ...

Closed installations of the United States Army

Buildings and structures in Nez Perce County, Idaho Idaho in the American Civil War 1862 establishments in Washington Territory

Garrisons

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