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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
Taylor, George Lansing Jr., "Camp Recovery Marker, Bainbridge, GA" (2012). George Lansing Taylor Collection Main Gallery. 2992.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/2992
Rights Statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/