Camp Recovery-Bainbridge, GA.
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snfromky
N 30° 54.245 W 084° 34.532
16R E 731718 N 3421490
A marker that commemorates a camp to help wounded soldiers.
Waymark Code: WM6MC5
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/20/2009
Views: 15
On the east side of Flint River, twenty-one miles southwest is the site of Camp Recovery, established during the First Seminole Indian War as a hospital base to which the sick soldiers from Fort Scott were sent to recover. A Federal Monument on the site marks the burial place of U.S. officers and soldiers who died during the hostilities in the Flint and Chattahoochee River Counties 1817-1821.
Type of Marker: Monument
Marker #: 27-R7
Date: 1995
Sponsor: Historic Chattahoochee Commission and Decatur Historical Society
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