Camp Alert was an

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, training camp located at the Pioneer Race Course, near

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, north of

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. Today the site location is within the city, between 24th and 25th Streets (north and south) and Folsom and Mission Streets (east and west). Camp Alert was first used in 1862, as the place where the

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was headquartered, organized and trained before moving to their headquarters to

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. Although the last unit of the 2nd California Volunteer Cavalry left April 30, 1863, it remained as a post until 1865.

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