Carlisle Barracks is a
United States Army
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facility located in Pennsylvania, with a
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England.
Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...
post office address and with a portion in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The site of the
U.S. Army War College
The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a United States Army, U.S. Army staff college in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, with a Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Carlisle postal address, on the 500-acre (2 km2) campus of the historic Carlisle B ...
, it is the nation's second-oldest active military base. The first structures were built in 1757, during the
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a colonial conflict in North America between Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Kingdom of France, France, along with their respective Native Americans in the United States, Native American ...
between Great Britain and France in the colonies.
From 1879 to 1918, the property was transferred to the
Department of Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources. It also administers programs relating t ...
to operate the
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from its founding in 1879 to 1918. It was based in the histo ...
. This was the first off-reservation
boarding school
A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. They have existed for many centuries, and now extend acr ...
established to educate and assimilate Native American children into European-American culture. In 1891 Congress passed legislation to expand this program. After the United States entered World War I, the school was closed and the property was transferred back to the War Department.
History
1756—1860
Developed at the intersection of Indian trails along Letort Creek, in the eighteenth century the town of Carlisle became the jumping-off point for traders and settlers heading over the
Alleghenies
The Allegheny Mountain Range ( ) — also spelled Alleghany or Allegany, less formally the Alleghenies — is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the Eastern United States and Canada. Historically it represented a significant barr ...
on their way west. A brief 1756 encampment at Carlisle preceded the more permanent
Carlisle Fort, built in 1757, during the
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a colonial conflict in North America between Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Kingdom of France, France, along with their respective Native Americans in the United States, Native American ...
on the North American front between the colonies of Britain and France. Colonel
John Stanwix
John Stanwix ( 1690 – 29 October 1766) was a British soldier and politician.
Background
He was born John Roos, the son of Rev. John Roos, rector of Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire. In 1725, he succeeded to the estates of his uncle Thomas Stanwix ...
marched upstream with British regulars and provincials against the backdrop of the international
Seven Years' War
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, building extensive
entrenchments in Carlisle. After the
American Revolutionary War
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, from 1783 to 1837, the town of Carlisle was significant as the frontier gateway, as a greatly increased wave of land-hungry migrants moved west.
During the Revolutionary War, numerous substantial brick buildings were erected at Carlisle Barracks for military stores and to accommodate workmen of the revolutionary government's dedicated managing body for the Army, the
Ordnance Department
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. While the facility might have been used to store ammunition and explosives, its lack of access to water transportation made it impractical because of the difficulty of overland travel at the time. The
Hessian Powder Magazine, now Hessian Guardhouse Museum, was built in 1777.
[ ''Note:'' This includes ]
In 1794, Carlisle Barracks became the center of intense federal military activity with the outbreak of the
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax impo ...
in the Pennsylvania backcountry. President
George Washington
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journeyed to the barracks to review the troops—perhaps as many as 10,000 men. The crisis was posed by farmers in southwestern Pennsylvania, who refused to pay a tax on the commercial whiskey they distilled from their corn crops. They had found the alcohol more easily transported east over the Alleghenies and more profitable to sell than was corn as grain.
President Washington recommended the barracks as the site for a Federal military academy. But the state of New York won this prize, and
West Point
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was developed on the west side of the
Hudson River
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. The government decided to clear up ownership of the post; in 1801, the government paid $664.20 for the 27 acres (110,000 m
2) which it had been renting from
William Penn
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's heirs.
In 1838 the US School of Cavalry Practice was established at Carlisle Barracks. It was the army's small mounted force of
U.S.
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Dragoons
Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat wi ...
, the forerunner of the Armor School at
Fort Knox
Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository (also known as Fort Knox), which is used to house a larg ...
, Kentucky, and now at
Fort Benning, Georgia
Fort Benning (named Fort Moore from 2023–2025) is a United States Army post in the Columbus, Georgia area. Located on Georgia's border with Alabama, Fort Benning supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve compone ...
. Captain
E. V. Sumner
Edwin Vose Sumner (January 30, 1797March 21, 1863) was a career United States Army officer who became a Union Army general and the oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the American Civil War. His nicknames "Bull" or "B ...
found most of the barracks buildings in disrepair, the maneuver area less than adequate, and horses in short supply. Overcoming these problems included drilling his recruits at the double time on foot to simulate the trotting of the missing horses. Another mounted organization, horse-drawn light artillery, also established its school at Carlisle Barracks. In 1839, Captain
Samuel Ringgold arrived to begin training recruits and testing equipment for the "flying artillery," as it was sometimes called.
Civil War
From the early Civil War days, south-central Pennsylvania was rife with rumors of a
Confederate
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invasion up the
Shenandoah-
Cumberland Valley
The Cumberland Valley is a northern constituent valley of the Great Appalachian Valley, within the Atlantic Seaboard watershed in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Appalachian Trail crosses through the valley.
Geography
The valley is bound t ...
from
Virginia
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to Pennsylvania. Although many miles from the combat front, the garrison at Carlisle became a central supply center for ordnance stores, horses, and quartermaster supplies under Captain David H. Hastings. Recruits once destined for Indian-fighting units on the western frontier were prepared to replace casualties in
Regular Army
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* a ...
units. Entire units were sent to the barracks to refit before specific deployment.
In June 1863, "the Rebels are coming!" was a cry with substance. In spite of a small defensive Pennsylvania
militia
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and home guard force, Brigadier General
Albert G. Jenkins' Confederate cavalry entered Carlisle on 27 June. Jenkins led his mounted brigade east along the Trindle Road, where they bivouacked while they took rations by wagon from the town. He had levied a demand for food for his 1,500 men and forage for their horses. Three North Carolina brigades occupied Carlisle Barracks; the troops camped on the parade grounds.
Major General
J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry division approached Carlisle from the east on the afternoon of Wednesday, 1 July. Depleted by a sweeping march around the
Union Army, Stuart hoped to find needed provisions; he did not know that other Confederate units had already sought the same Carlisle provisions. Stuart sent a demand for surrender of the Federal forces under the command of Brigadier General
William Farrar Smith
William Farrar Smith (February 17, 1824February 28, 1903), known as "Baldy" Smith, was a Union general in the American Civil War, notable for attracting the extremes of glory and blame. He was praised for his gallantry in the Seven Days Battles ...
. When his demand was refused, Stuart initiated a short bombardment. When a second demand was refused, Stuart ordered his troops to shell the town and, later, to torch the barracks. ''See
Battle of Carlisle.''
After the Civil War ended, the barracks returned to its pre-war mission of receiving, training and forwarding cavalry recruits destined for the Indian wars on the western frontier. But, as army operations moved west, the
War Department War Department may refer to:
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* United States Department of War
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moved this function to the
St. Louis Arsenal
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in
Missouri
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. There it had access to transportation on the
Mississippi
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and
Missouri
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rivers. On 20 April 1871, Carlisle Barracks was officially "discontinued as a sub-Depot for the Mounted Recruit Service." The installation was available for new uses.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School

In 1879, the War Department transferred control of the post to the
Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources. It also administers programs relatin ...
. The US Congress had authorized the
Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States List of United States federal agencies, federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior. It is responsible for im ...
(BIA) to found the first off-reservation Indian boarding school for the education of Native American children. During and at the end of the Indian Wars, the US government sought a way to assimilate and integrate the children into European-American culture: teaching them English, trades, and Christianity.
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School officially opened on 1 November 1879 and operated until 1918. Among the first batch of students were groups of children from
Sioux
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin ( ; Dakota/ Lakota: ) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America. The Sioux have two major linguistic divisions: the Dakota and Lakota peoples (translati ...
(Lakota) bands that had rebelled against the US.
The Indian Bureau sent the children to the school to be educated and essentially kept as political
hostage
A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized—such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government—to act, o ...
s, to ensure compliant behavior on the part of the bands from which they had been taken.
Commanding General of the Army
William T. Sherman
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had acceded to the petitions of
Richard Henry Pratt
Brigadier-General Richard Henry Pratt (December 6, 1840 – March 15, 1924) was a United States Army officer who founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania in 1879 and served as its longtime superintendent. Prior to this, Prat ...
to use the barracks for a model Indian school. The goal was for children to learn English and European-American ways, to gain an education apart from the reservations, and live among European-American men and women. Pratt believed Native Americans needed such education to be able to protect their lands and societies. He became the school's founder and first superintendent. He based the school's program on his experience since 1875 in supervising and educating Indian prisoners-of-war at
Fort Marion
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It was designed by the Spanish en ...
in
St. Augustine, Florida
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. Twenty young Indian men gained further education at
Hampton Institute
Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missiona ...
, a
historically black college
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African Americans. Most are in the Southern U ...
, and private schools in New York.
1918—1950
On 1 September 1918, with
World War I
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underway, the U.S. Army took back Carlisle Barracks from the Department of Interior. It used the facility to respond to a wide set of changing army and security needs. At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army established General Hospital No. 31 as a pioneering rehabilitation center there. For two years, the hospital provided medical treatment, mental reconditioning and vocational training for more than 4,000 afflicted soldiers returned from service with the
American Expeditionary Force
The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) was a formation of the United States Armed Forces on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front during World War I, composed mostly of units from the United States Army, U.S. Army. The AEF was establis ...
s in France. Carlisle Barracks' equipment laboratory designed and tested new products, including improved lighting for field hospitals, a field dental dispensary, first aid kits for arctic rescue, and the "First-aid Packet, U.S. Government Carlisle Model" bandage
field dressing
In the fall of 1920, the
Medical Field Service School was established under
Colonel Percy M. Ashburn's command. Drawing on the lessons of World War I, the school developed medical equipment and doctrine suitable for the battlefield. More than 30,000 officers and
NCOs
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passed through the school during its 26-year tenure at Carlisle Barracks. They applied classroom instruction and field exercises to train in care of casualties and disease prevention, the latter a major problem for the military until improvements in sanitation and antibiotics.
When the Medical Field Service School departed in 1946 for
Fort Sam Houston
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at
San Antonio
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, Texas after
World War II
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, educational innovation continued. From 1946 until 1951, six U.S. Army schools were located at Carlisle Barracks. First was the
Army Information School, followed shortly by the School for Government of Occupied Areas, and the
Adjutant General's School for army personnel managers. The next year brought the
Chaplain
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School and the
Military Police
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School. Finally, the
Army Security Agency
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School began highly classified operations in 1949 and stayed for two years before being displaced.
United States Army War College

In the spring of 1951, the United States Army War College, senior educational institution of the U.S. Army, relocated to Carlisle Barracks in central Pennsylvania. The college, established in 1903 and formerly located in Washington, D.C., had functioned as part of the General Staff during its early years. It chiefly prepared selected officers for high command. Distinguished graduates of that period included
John J. Pershing
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(Class of 1905),
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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(1927), and
Omar N. Bradley
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(1934).
Classes were suspended in 1940 during the preparedness mobilization for
World War II
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, and not resumed until a decade later at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
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, for the 1950–51 academic year. The new commandant, Lieutenant General
Joseph M. Swing
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, relocated with the college to Pennsylvania in July 1951 and turned over command to his successor, Lieutenant General
Edward M. Almond, in time for the arrival of the first Carlisle-based class.
At Carlisle, the Army War College expanded steadily, adding new programs and specialties. The college outgrew its main academic building (the current Upton Hall). In 1967 it transferred to Root Hall, newly constructed to accommodate current requirements. Two specialized agencies evolved into integral parts of the Army War College: the
Strategic Studies Institute
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, first formed in 1954; and the
Military History Institute, established in 1967. The Center for Strategic Leadership, a state-of-the-art war gaming complex, opened in 1994, incorporating increasingly sophisticated technology.
In 2005 the Carlisle Barracks was listed as a candidate for closure under the realignment process and
hearings of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, but was subsequently removed from the list. In 2006, ground was broken on a major project across the road from Carlisle Barracks: to construct new military housing, work that had been postponed pending BRAC review. It was part of the Residential Community Initiative, a public-private venture of the Army. In Carlisle, the development project included renovation of some historic housing, and construction of nearly 200 new units of housing with 3-4 bedrooms each, and more than 2000-2500 square feet of space.
Location
A portion of the barracks property is in the Carlisle Barracks
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
, located in
North Middleton Township, Pennsylvania
North Middleton Township is a township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 12,039 at the 2020 census.
The township manager is John M. Epley
Geography
The township is in north-central Cumberland County, border ...
.
Much of the property is in the township, including territory that is not in the CDP. Another portion of the barracks is in
Middlesex Township. Small portions of the barracks property are in
Carlisle borough.
Demographics
Carlisle Barracks CDP is a
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) covering the residential population of the Carlisle Barracks in
North Middleton Township,
[ ]Cumberland County Cumberland County may refer to:
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* the former name of Cumberland Land District, Tasmania, Australia
Canada
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United Kingdom
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, Pennsylvania
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, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 938.
The school district covering the CDP is Carlisle Area School District.[ ]
Text list
/ref> Carlisle High School is the comprehensive high school of that district.
2020 census
References
External links
Carlisle Barracks Garrison
Tenant Units
Carlisle Barracks Manuscript Collection
US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle Barracks Photograph Collection
US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England.
Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...
U.S. Army War College
The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a United States Army, U.S. Army staff college in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, with a Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Carlisle postal address, on the 500-acre (2 km2) campus of the historic Carlisle B ...
U.S. Army War College
The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a United States Army, U.S. Army staff college in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, with a Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Carlisle postal address, on the 500-acre (2 km2) campus of the historic Carlisle B ...
Pennsylvania in the American Civil War
American Civil War army posts
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Military facilities in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
1757 establishments in Pennsylvania
Military installations established in 1757