Foto Friday - Camp sites

[Blessmag]

The 106th Ill. Inf. is said to have camped here near the Shoppach House, Benton Arkansas. When I asked a local, 'duh'. Then I asked why is this road labeled the Military Road. "duh, I don't know." The supposed place is under the water towers today.

 

[A. Roy]

This is a great topic for Foto Friday. These are photos of Spring Hill House, which was a plantation home south of Raleigh, NC, very near the grounds of the Dorothea Dix "Insane Asylum." (Spring Hill is now inside the city limits.) In April 1865 at the end of the war, thousands of Union soldiers camped around Raleigh, particularly in this area. NC State University now owns the Spring Hill grounds and uses the house for the NC Japan Center. The university says that after the war "Spring Hill House was likely used to billet officers or as an office by the military."

This detail from the 1863 Guion map of Raleigh's fortifications shows Spring Hill plantation in relation to the earthworks and the "Insane Asylum," Dorothea Dix Hospital, now the location of state offices and a city park:

Roy B.