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Creation Date
6-16-2012
Building Name
Camp Recovery
Description
Camp Recovery Marker, Bainbridge, GA.
This is a monument on the site which marks the burial place of U.S. soldiers and officers who died here. Camp Recovery was established during the First Seminole War as a camp to help wounded soldiers. It was placed by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and Decatur Historical Society in 1995.
It reads as follows :
" 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."
Latitude, Longitude
30.90407778, -84.57555278
Recommended Citation
George Lansing Taylor, Jr. "Camp Recovery Marker, Bainbridge, GA." (2012). Image Collection. University of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections and Archives. UNF Digital Commons, https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/2992/
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