Camp Joseph F. Johnston at Blackpoint, the quartermaster camp near Jacksonville, is a good example of one of these special training camps. This consisted of quarters for 150 officers, 32 barracks to house 200 men each, together with barracks for wagon companies, pack companies, truck companies, and a bakery company, as well as stables for 1,200 animals and 50 riding horses, together with storeroom buildings and truck and auto garages.
Camp Holabird, near Baltimore, used for teaching men to repair and crate motor trucks and vehicles, had accommodations for about 7,500 men. Another special camp was Camp Humphreys, for the training of men in the Corps of Engineers, located a few miles down the Potomac River from Washington. This camp could accommodate 33,000 men in 1,350 buildings located on a camp area of 2,500 acres. Every foot of this site had to be cleared of timber and underbrush during one of the severest winters of recent years. All material had to be hauled in trucks over fearful roads pending the construction of a 5-mile spur of railroad track, yet the job was completed approximately on time.
Other special camps included Camp Bragg for training Field Artillery, located at Fayetteville, N. C., with quarters for 11,000 men; Camp Knox at Stithon, Ky., for 30,000 men, having an area of nearly 60,000 acres for training troops in the use of Field Artillery; and Camp Franklin, located on part of the Camp Meade cantonment reservation, a special camp for Signal Corps instruction, with accommodations for 11,000 men.
Then there was the Coast Artillery training cantonment, Camp Eustis at Lee Hall, Va., which had accommodations for 17,000 men; Camp Meigs at Washington, D. C., a quartermaster camp, providing accommodations for 4,000 men; and Camp Benning, at Columbus, Ga., an infantry school of arms, to accommodate 5,040 men, on a camp area of 98,000 acres. At Camp Raritan, at Raritan River, N. J., the Ordnance Department established a training school for 6,250 men.
| Name. | Location. | Maximum capacity. | Approximate cost. | Contractors. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Beauregard | Alexandria, La. | 29,121 | $4,300,000 | Stewart McGehee, Hudson Construction Co., J. W. Snyder. |
| Camp Bowie | Fort Worth, Tex. | 41,879 | 3,400,000 | J. W. Thompson, H. G. Bush. |
| Camp Bragg | Fayetteville, N. C. | 11,831 | 11,000,000 | James Stewart Co. |
| Camp Cody | Deming, N. Mex. | 44,959 | 3,800,000 | J. W. Thompson Co., H. G. Bush. |
| Camp Custer | Battle Creek, Mich | 49,014 | 13,000,000 | Porter Bros., R. G. Phelps, W.E. Wood Co. |
| Camp Devens | Ayer, Mass. | 36,832 | 11,800,000 | Fred T. Ley Co., Coleman Bros. |
| Camp Dix | Wrightstown, N. J. | 42,806 | 12,300,000 | Irwin & Leighton Co., J. S. Rogers Co., J. W. Ferguson & Co. |
| Camp Dodge | Des Moines, Iowa | 49,229 | 10,800,000 | Charles Weltz Sons. |
| Camp Doniphan | Lawton, Okla. | 46,183 | 2,706,000 | Selden-Breck Construction Co., Trope & Carney. |
| Camp Abraham Eustis | Lee Hall, Va. | 16,759 | 11,700,000 | Winston & Co. |
| Camp Fremont | Palo Alto, Calif. | 30,000 | 2,556,000 | Lindgren Co., E. A. Hettinger. |
| Camp Funston | Fort Riley, Kans. | 42,806 | 10,500,000 | George A. Fuller Construction Co., Henry Bennet & Son, Gray Construction Co. |
| Camp Gordon | Atlanta, Ga. | 46,612 | 11,100,000 | Arthur Tufts Co., Mackie Construction Co., Southern-Ferro Construction Co. |
| Camp Meade | Odenton, Md. | 52,575 | 16,200,000 | Claiborne Johnson Co., Smith, Houser & McIsaacs. |
| Camp Meigs | Washington, D. C. | 3,774 | 655,000 | Philip F. Gormley, Frank L. Wagner. |
| Camp Merritt | Dumont, N. J. | 39,079 | 14,500,000 | McArthur Bros. Co., W. H. Fissell & Co. |
| Camp Mills | Garden City, L. I. | 25,000 | 13,000,000 | Clough-Bourne Co. |
| Camp Hill | Newport News, Va. | 5,852 | 16,125,000 | Westinghouse-Church-Kerr Co., Hampton Roads Engineering Construction Co., Boyle-Robertson Construction Co. |
| Camp Stuart | do. | 24,234 | ||
| Camp Oglethorpe, Fort Greenleaf | 24,457 | $5,600,000 | Park-Grimes Co. | |
| Forrest | ||||
| Camp Pike | Little Rock, Ark. | 55,010 | 12,700,000 | James Stewart & Co. (Inc.), Stewart McGehee Co. |
| Camp Polk | Raleigh, N. C. | [37] | Holliday-Krouse Co. | |
| Camp Sevier | Greenville, S. C. | 41,693 | 6,508,000 | Gallivan Building Co. |
| Camp Shelby | Hattiesburg, Miss. | 36,010 | 5,400,000 | T. S. Moudy Co., Richard McCarthy Co. |
| Camp Sheridan | Montgomery, Ala. | 41,593 | 3,500,000 | Algernon Blair, Paschen Bros. |
| Camp Sherman | Chillicothe, Ohio | 49,112 | 12,900,000 | Thomas A. Bently & Sons, D. W. McGrath & Sons. |
| Camp Taylor | Louisville, Ky. | 45,424 | 8,000,000 | Mason & Hanger, Alfred Struck Co. |
| Camp Travis | San Antonio, Tex. | 42,809 | 8,200,000 | Stone & Webster, McKenzie Construction Co. |
| Camp Upton | Yaphank, L. I. | 43,567 | 13,500,000 | Thompson-Starrett Co., Mark C. Tredennick Co., C. H. & R. C. Peckworth (Inc.). |
| Camp Grant | Rockford, Ill. | 62,675 | 14,400,000 | Bates & Rogers Construction Co., Ross T. Beckstrom Co., Henry Erickson Co. |
| Camp Green | Charlotte, N. C. | 48,305 | 4,300,000 | Consolidated Engineering Co., J. A. Jones Co. |
| Camp Hancock | Augusta, Ga. | 45,099 | 6,000,000 | T. O. Brown Co., William Crawford. |
| Camp Humphreys | Belvoir, Va. | 32,434 | 12,745,000 | Phillip F. Gormley Co. |
| Camp Jackson | Columbia, S. C. | 44,009 | 10,000,000 | Hardaway Construction Co., Columbia Lumber & Manufacturing Co., H. B. Hann. |
| Camp Jackson, No. | do. | [37] | Hardaway Construction Co. | |
| Camp Johnston | Jacksonville, Fla. | 18,265 | T. A. Bentley & Sons., J. Y. Wilson. | |
| Camp Kearney | San Diego, Calif. | 32,066 | 5,838,000 | W. E. Hampton Co., John Roberts Co. |
| Camp Knox | Stithton, Ky. | 27,805 | 18,733,184 | John W. Griffith & Sons. |
| Camp Las Casas | San Juan, Porto Rico | 13,265 | 2,500,000 | Purdy & Henderson Co. |
| Camp Lee | Petersburg, Va. | 60,335 | 16,500,000 | Rhinehart & Dennis (Inc.), Harrison Construction Co., John T. Wilson & Co. (Inc.). |
| Camp Lewis | American Lake (Tacoma), Wash. | 46,232 | 8,400,000 | Hurley Mason Co., The Construction Co. |
| Camp Logan | Houston, Tex. | 44,899 | 3,300,000 | American Construction Co., Horton & Horton. |
| Camp McArthur | Waco, Tex. | 45,074 | 4,000,000 | Fred A. Jones Construction Co., Blome & Sinek Co., Edgar H. Bruyere. |
| Camp McClellan | Anniston, Ala. | 57,746 | 9,800,000 | John O. Chisholm & Co., Labarre & Erwin, A. W. Stoolman. |
| Camp Wadsworth | Spartanburg, S. C. | 56,249 | 4,000,000 | Fiske Carter Co. |
| Camp Wheeler | Macon, Ga. | 43,011 | 3,200,000 | W. Z. Williams. |
[37] Abandoned.
CHAPTER II.
MISCELLANEOUS CONSTRUCTION.
Great as was the job of building the army camps and cantonments, it was nevertheless only a part of the work which fell to the Construction Division, and much the smaller part at that.