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The Department of War formally established Camp McClellan on July 18, 1917, named in honor of Major General George B. McClellan, General-in-Chief of the Union Army, 1861–1862. Camp McClellan was one of 32 mobilization camps formed to quickly train men for World War I .
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Camp McClellan is a former Union Army camp in the U.S. state of Iowa that was established in Davenport in August 1861 after the outbreak of the American Civil War. [1] The camp was the training grounds for recruits and a hospital for the wounded.
The march to Cheat Mountain was difficult, and was greatly exacerbated by rainy weather. The Union defenders on Cheat Summit were very familiar with the terrain and mountain trails. Rust's advancing column encountered two Union pickets who attempted to flee. Confederate troops opened fire and killed these two, alerting the nearby pickets.
The German Italian Memorial Cemetery at the Fort McClellan United States Army post is the burial site for 26 German and three Italian World War II enemy combatants who had been interned at Fort McClellan at their time of death.
The Alabama Military Academy is a National Guard officer candidate training school [clarification needed] located at the Fort McClellan Army National Guard Training Center in Fort McClellan, Alabama.
The airfield was built in the 1930s to support Army activities at Fort McClellan, used by observation aircraft for artillery spotting and general surveillance of maneuvers.