The

McMillan Woods McMillan Woods is a Gettysburg Battlefield forested area used during the Battle of Gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg () was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces ...

CCC camp was

Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of ...

camp NP-2 on the

Gettysburg Battlefield The Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg within and around the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Locations of military engagements extend from the site of the first shot ...

planned in September 193

near CCC Camp Renaissance in Pitzer Woods (camp NP-1). Captain Francis J. Moran moved from Camp Renaissance to become the new camp NP-2 commander in October 1933 (supervisors under Superintendent Farrell include
Charles Heilman
in 193

and Major Renn Lawrence was the 1937 CCC sub-district commander

The camp opened a new recreation hall in 193

and provided manpower for building the veterans camp for the

1938 Gettysburg reunion The 1938 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg Battlefield for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The gathering included approximately 25 veterans of the battle with a further 1,3 ...

, and about 50 enrollees of CCC Compan
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served as aides for unaccompanied veteran

During the reunion, Company F of the 34th Infantry Regiment (United States), 34th Infantry used the CCC camp and had a headquarters office under Major C. Gilchrist (executive officer of the "regular army camp") and Capt. E. E. Wrigh

Captain Frederick L. Slade was the CCC commander on April 1, 193

In 1939, the McMillan Woods CCC camp became the 1st under an "all colored staff" when the white supervisory personnel transferred to the Blue Knob State Park, Blue Knob CCC camp

(the camp's singing quartet made public appearances in 1939

The camp worked on Jones Battalion avenue and constructed a new walkway on

Big Round Top Big Round Top is a boulder-strewn hill notable as the topographic high point of the Gettysburg Battlefield and for 1863 American Civil War engagements for which Medals of Honor were awarded. In addition to battle monuments, a historic postbellu ...

. The commander in 1940 was Captain Webb, and in March 1942, the McMillan Woods CCC camp was to be abandone

(the facility became the 1944-5 World War II Prisoner of War Camp, Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania, World War II POW camp at Gettysburg.)

References

{{Reflist Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania Gettysburg Battlefield