Central Georgia

Last Update: 10/JULY/2026

Compiled by Pete Payette - Š2026 American Forts Network

Waco Target Range
(unknown - 1940), Waco
A subpost of Fort McPherson, used for infantry marksmanship training. Located about two miles south/southwest of town. Camp near Waco was established here in 1898 for Army recruits at Fort McPherson to escape a typhoid fever epidemic. After WWII the post became a Boy Scout camp, now private property.

Camp Carrollton
(1862), near Carrollton
A CSA cavalry camp (June 1862) (Company B, 7th Regiment Georgia Cavalry) located near town.

Camp Baskin
(1863), near Hickory Level
A CSA camp (November 1863) (9th Battalion Infantry, Georgia State Guards) located near the crossroads in eastern Carroll County.

Camp Cleary
(1898), Newnan
A Spanish-American War Regular Army recruitment camp located at the Pearl Springs Resort two miles south of town at Pearl Lake.

Fort Tyler
(1863 - 1865), West Point
A CSA strong bastioned four-gun earthwork, 35 yards square, surrounded by a 12-foot wide moat, located at present-day Sixth Ave. and West 10th Street. Two circular stockades protected both sides of the railroad bridge across the Chattahoochee River, and a line of rifle pits encircled the town. Site of one of the last Civil War battles east of the Mississippi River in April 1865, a Union victory. This was the last Confederate fort to fall in battle. See also Explore Southern History.com article by Dale Cox

CSA Camp Wayne (7) (November 1864) (37th Regiment Georgia Militia) was located near the town.

Coweta Blockhouse
(1689 - 1691), Columbus ?
A Spanish blockhouse built on the east side (?) of the Chattahoochee River, opposite the Muscogee (Creek) village of Coweta.
(NOTE: if this post was actually located on the west side of the river, then this is a reference to Apalachicola Fort in ALABAMA.)

Civil War Defenses of Columbus
(1864 - 1865), Columbus
A line of CSA breastworks surrounded the city to the east. Gun batteries were located on the Chattahoochee River at both railroad bridges. A naval gun battery was located at the CSA Navy Yard at the foot of Fulton Street. The city was attacked by the Union in April 1865, considered to be the last major land battle of the Civil War. (see also Girard (Phenix City) Defenses in ALABAMA.) See also Battle of Columbus from Explore Southern History.com

Camp Bartow (2) (August 1861) (Columbus Volunteers (infantry)), located east of the cemetery in Columbus.
Camp Benning (1) (August 1864) (Dawson Artillery), located near Columbus.
Camp Davis (4) (July 1861) (Ivey Guards (infantry)), located behind the Opelika Depot outside of the city.
Camp Garrard (March 1862) (Capt. Cooper's Company, Muscogee Volunteers), located near the Opelika Depot outside of the city.
Camp Humphreys (May 1863 - November 1864) (27th Battalion Georgia Volunteers), located near Columbus.
Camp Linwood (July 1861) (Semmes Guards (infantry)), located near the home of a Mr. A.C. Flewellan, near the city.
Camp Magruder (August-September 1861) (Company A, 31st Regiment Georgia Infantry), located near Columbus.
Camp Montgomery (June-July 1861) (Jackson Avengers (infantry)), located near Columbus. This camp was apparently used again in January 1864 for recruiting a company of mounted riflemen under General John Imboden's command.

Columbus CSA Arsenal and Ordnance Depot
(1864 - 1865), Columbus
A CSA Arsenal and/or Ordnance Depot was located in the city, transferred from Atlanta. Undetermined location.
(NOTE: not to be confused with the Columbus Naval Iron Works. See SHIPYARDS page.)

Camp Conrad
(1898 - 1899), Columbus
A Spanish-American War winter camp located between Third and Sixth Aves. and 29th and 33rd Streets in the North Highlands area. Originally named Camp Davis (10).

Fort Twiggs (3)
(1836), Fort Benning Military Reservation
A GA state militia log stockade with two blockhouses, located near the confluence of Upatoi Creek and the Chattahoochee River. A third blockhouse was nearby protecting a horse pen.

Fort Benning (U.S. Military Reservation)
(1918 - present), Fort Benning
Originally named Camp Benning (2) until renamed in 1922. A temporary site was first located on Macon Road three miles east of Columbus. A permanent site was selected south of the city. The Regular Army's School of Infantry was established here in 1934. The Army Airborne School is also here. The Army's School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001) is also located here. Of interest is the National Infantry Museum.

Officially renamed Fort Moore (2) in May 2023. Officially reverted back to Fort Benning (2) in April 2025, now for Army Sgt. Fred G. Benning of the 16th Infantry Regiment during World War I.

Fort Perry
(1813), near Juniper
A GA state militia stockade with blockhouses on Juniper Creek. A state marker locates the site on GA 41 at Fort Perry Road, southeast of town.

Camp Brown (5)
(1863), near Talbotton
A CSA cavalry camp (July-September 1863) (Company E, 29th Battalion Georgia Cavalry) located near town, and 14 miles from Geneva.

Camp Murphy
(1861), near The Rock
A CSA muster camp (summer 1861) (Holloway Grays (infantry)) located one mile south of the village, seven miles northeast of Thomaston. Other local militia companies also probably used this camp.

Camp Davis (3)
(1861), Pike County
A CSA muster camp (June 1861) (Pike County Volunteers (infantry)) located in Pike County (undetermined location).

Civil War Defenses of Griffin
(1861 - 1864), Griffin
Confederate entrenchments (September-November 1864) (1st Brigade Georgia Militia home guard) were built around the city to defend against Sherman's March to the Sea (in November 1864), but Sherman veered away to the east.

Confederate muster and training camps located in the area included:
Camp Davis (6) (September 1861) (local militia infantry) was located about five miles from the city. The Georgia Militia home guard was later here in March 1862.
Camp Doyal (June 1862) (53rd Regiment Georgia Infantry) located near the city.
Camp Ector (April-July 1862) (Companies D, E, H, J, K, 2nd Regiment Georgia Cavalry) a cavalry training camp located one mile south of the city.
Camp Golgotha (May-July 1862) a recruitment camp for the 14th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery, located about 1.5 miles south or southeast of town.
Camp Lawton (4) (June 1862) (Company K, 2nd Regiment Georgia Cavalry) located near the city.
Camp Milner was a major cavalry mobilization camp for the Confederate Army in Georgia. A state marker locates site at Municipal Park on Country Club Drive.
Camp Stephens (1) (July 1861 - June 1862) was a major infantry and light artillery mobilization camp for the Confederate Army in Georgia, located about one-half mile from old US 41 on East McIntosh Road, one-half mile east of the railroad, two miles north of the city (at Experiment). Numerous units were organized and trained here. Defensive entrenchments were later built here in September to November 1864 by the 1st Brigade Georgia Militia home guard. A U.D.C. stone monument is at the site. This became part of the Georgia Experiment Farm in 1905.
Camp Tiller (May-August 1862) (Echols' Light Artillery) located on a hill one-half mile north or west of town, and seven miles from the Flint River. Also referred to as Camp Stephens (2) in some period documents, possibly the same (?) as Camp Stephens (1). Echols' Battery was previously at Camp Stephens (1) in April-May 1862.

Camp Northen
(Griffin Municipal Park)
(1892 - 1910), Griffin
A Georgia National Guard annual summer training camp, located at the site of CSA Camp Milner. During the Spanish-American War (1898), it became an assembly camp for all state troops on their way to Tampa, FL. Site became a city park before WWI.
NOTE: often mis-spelled as "Northern" in numerous accounts. The camp was named for then Georgia state governor William J. Northen (1890-94).

Lovejoy's Station Fort
(1864), Lovejoy
Temporary CSA fortifications were built north and west of town in anticipation of General Sherman's advance after the Battle of Jonesboro (September 1864). The Union army did not attack here, but instead withdrew north to occupy Atlanta which was then being evacuated by the remaining Confederate forces. Extant works are located north of town at McDonough and Freeman Roads (public access restricted).

CSA Camp Bald Head (October-November 1864) (Georgia Militia home guard) was located near Lovejoy, 17 miles north of Griffin.
Camp Lovejoy (November 1864) (Georgia Militia home guard) located near Lovejoy, possibly the same as above.

Fort Romulos
(unknown dates), Monroe County
Located on the Ocmulgee River, opposite Tom's Ford (location ?). Possibly never built.
(info provided by Marshall Sitrin)

Fort Lawrence
(1813 - 1814), near Hammett
A GA state militia and Federal stockade located on the Flint River, between Roberta and Reynolds, at the later townsite of Francisville (1825). It was 180 feet square with two blockhouses, two hospitals, two storehouses, barracks, and other structures. See also Forts Along the Federal Road by Joe Halstead

State marker for the Creek Indian Agency (Old Agency) located on GA 128 on the east side of the Flint River bridge. This was the home and farm of Benjamin Hawkins, the official "Agent for Indian Affairs South of the Ohio" from 1796 until his death in 1816.

Lamar Archaeological Site
(1350 - 1500), near Smithsonia
A palisaded Indian town with two major mounds and several house sites. Located on the Ocmulgee River three miles south of Ocmulgee Mounds.

Fort Hawkins (City Park)
(Historic Fort Hawkins)
(Ocmulgee Mounds National Monument)
(1806 - 1819), (East) Macon
A Federal Indian trading post, or Factory, located on the east side of the Ocmulgee River. It was a 1.4-acre pentagonal stockade with two two-story log blockhouses on stone foundations, and four log barracks - one against each wall. Known as the Post at the Old Fields until renamed in 1808. The Lower Creek Indian Agency was here until 1817. The abandoned fort was taken over by land developers in 1828, and by 1879 only the southeast blockhouse remained standing, to be finally dismantled in 1883. It was relocated to Main Street and used as a barn until it burned down in the early 1900's. The northwest blockhouse was reportedly destroyed in a storm in 1870. The current blockhouse is a 1938 reconstruction, located at Maynard and Woolfolk Streets, and maintained by the city since 2002. Site excavated in 2005, and the city plans to eventually reconstruct the entire fort. See also Explore Southern History.com article by Dale Cox
See also Forts Along the Federal Road by Joe Halstead

CSA Camp Wright (2) (December 1864), the CSA headquarters of the local area forces, was located near the old fort. A convalescent camp was also here.

Nearby at Ocmulgee Mounds was the site of a British five-sided stockaded trading post Ocmulgee Trading Post (1690 - 1715). The site of Camp Hope (1813) was also nearby, used by the GA state militia. Located on Dunlap Hill, along the Dunlap Trail, is an extant CSA nine-gun battery, used in the November 1864 Battle of Walnut Creek. Seven extant Woodland Period (900 - 1150) Indian temple and burial mounds are located here, as well as a ceremonial earth lodge built over the original site. Ocmulgee Mounds was not known to have been fortified by its inhabitants. The ancient cleared fields of the area, stretching about 15-20 miles along the river centered from here, were known to the later Creek Indians and English settlers as the "Ocmulgee Old Fields" or simply "Old Fields". Excavations of the entire mound site were made in the 1930's. Admission fee to National Park area. See also New Georgia Encyclopedia entry

Camp Oglethorpe
(1844 - 1864), Macon
A GA state militia annual training area and county fairground before the Civil War. Several militia units were here in April-May 1861. In 1862 (May-December) became a POW camp for Union enlisted soldiers. Became a Union officer POW camp in December 1863 (to June 1864), holding almost 1,400 men, many originally from Libby Prison in Richmond, VA. The POW camp garrison was composed of the 10th Battalion Georgia Infantry, and the 3rd and 5th Regiments Georgia Infantry Reserves. The 12-acre site (about three acres were the POW camp) was located in the present-day railroad yards bounded by Seventh, Pine, and Hawthorne Streets, south of the restored train depot. See also Civil War Prisons in Georgia from the New Georgia Encyclopedia

Civil War Defenses of Macon
(1864), Macon
A line of earthwork redoubts, batteries and rifle pits surrounded the city west of the Altamaha River. An extant CSA gun battery remains in Riverside Cemetery on Riverside Drive. Located on Dunlap Hill, along the Dunlap Trail at Ocmulgee Mounds National Monument (NPS), is an extant CSA nine-gun battery, used in the November 1864 Battle of Walnut Creek. Macon became the state capital in 1864 - 1865 after Milledgeville was captured by Union forces.

Camp Aiken (December 1863 - May 1864) (Findlay's Battalion, Home Guards), located near Macon.
Camp Bay Spring (August 1861) (Warrior Rifles), a temporary drill camp located at the Bay Spring school house, five miles from the city.
Camp (Joseph) Brown (2) (June 1861) (Muckalee Guards (infantry)), located near Macon.
Camp (Jack) Brown (4) (June-August 1862) (59th Regiment Georgia Infantry), located near Macon.
Camp Cobb (2) (June-October 1864) (5th Regiment Georgia Infantry Reserves), located near a Mr. Napier's home, near the railroad, near the city.
Camp Cooper (April 1863 - October 1864), a camp of instruction located near Macon. The 64th Regiment Georgia Infantry was here in April 1863. The 66th Regiment Georgia Infantry was here in August 1863. Company B, Macon Light Artillery was here in October 1863. The 12th Regiment (Robinson's) Cavalry, Georgia State Guards was here in January 1864. The 1st Regiment Georgia Light Duty was here in October 1864.
Camp Cuyler (July 1863) (5th Regiment Georgia Infantry Reserves), located in the city.
Camp Harris (2) (December 1864 - April 1865) (1st Battalion Georgia Cavalry Reserves), located near Macon.
Camp Haskell (1), possibly located at the Arsenal (?).
Camp Johnson (3) (August 1862) (Goode's Battalion Partisan Rangers), located on the old academy lot near the city.
Camp Moore (February 1864) (Blount's Cavalry), located near Macon.
Camp Rescue (June-September 1864) (Georgia Militia Reserve), located in the city near Rose Hill Cemetery.
Camp Smith (4) (October-November 1864) (1st Division Headquarters, Georgia Militia), located three miles west of the city.
Camp Wright (2) (December 1864), the late-war headquarters of the local defense forces, was located at old Fort Hawkins (see above).

Confederate Central Laboratory and Arsenal
(1862 - 1864), Macon
A state marker locates the site at Vineville Ave.. This was the headquarters of the Confederate Ordnance Department during the Civil War. The Arsenal was built nearby, with some of the machinery that was transferred from Richmond, VA in June 1862. Both facilities were never fully completed before war's end. According to an 1864 map, the Arsenal was outside of the CSA earthwork defense line. The Arsenal's machinery was transferred to Columbia, SC in September 1864.

Camp Watts (April-June 1864), a conscript camp for special duty at the C.S. Arsenal, employed by the Chewacla Lime Company. Presumably located nearby.

Camp Haskell (3) was later located here in 1898 - 1899 (see below).

Spanish-American War Camps of Macon
(1898 - 1899), Macon
Camp Price (1898), a muster camp located at the horse track in Central City Park, south of 7th Street along the Ocmulgee River. Georgia troops later used the camp to muster-out, but relocated to Ocmulgee Park because Camp Price became flooded after a heavy rain. The new site was named Camp Rae (also spelled Ray). One newspaper at the time spelled it as Roe.
Camp Fornance (1898 - 1899), a winter camp for white troops, located on Ocmulgee Land Company property north (northwest) of the city, north of Vineville.
Camp Prior (1898 - 1899), also a winter camp for white troops, located adjacent to or near Camp Fornance.
Camp Haskell (3) (1898 - 1899), located on the "Huff property" (aka Crumps Park) at the old Confederate Laboratory, used as a winter camp for four Negro regiments.

Camp Wheeler
(1917 - 1919, 1941 - 1946), near Macon
A Federalized National Guard training encampment for the 31st Division. An Army Balloon School (1917) was located in the area, probably here. Unknown if site used by the state guard between the wars. Site was used again in WWII as an Infantry Replacement Center. Located six miles southeast of the city. Now Ocmulgee East Industrial Park. Marker at Riggins Mill Road and Joe Tamplin Industrial Blvd..

Camp Harris (3)
(1917 - 1919), near Macon
An Army Remount Station during WWI. Located four miles northwest of the city.

Camp Griswold
(1861 - 1862), near Griswoldville
A CSA camp (December 1861 - January 1862) (30th Regiment Georgia Infantry) located west of the village.

CSA Camp Wayne (3) (February 1863) (2nd (Storey's) Regiment Infantry, Georgia State Line) was located on the Central Railroad near town. Probably used again by the same troops in February and March 1864.

Camp Johnson (1)
(1861), near Madison
A CSA muster camp (March 1861) (Morgan County Home Guards) located near town. Other militia companies were also probably here.

Fort Clarke (1)
(1793 - 1794), near Wrayswood
A GA state militia palisaded two-story blockhouse at Scull Shoals on the Oconee River in northern Greene County. Site is within Oconee National Forest.

Fort Mathews
(1793 - 1794), near Swords
A GA state militia fort at the fork of the Oconee and Apalachee Rivers, built to keep watch on General Elijah Clarke's illegal land speculation activities. Marker located on US 278 on the west side of the Oconee River bridge, about two miles southeast of Greshamville.

Greensborough Fort
(unknown - 1787), Greensboro
A town fort that was attacked and burned by Indians in 1787.

Neal's Fort
(1780's ?), near White Plains
A settlers' fort just east of town. Also known as Old Fort (2) on Civil War era maps.

Taliaferro County Settler Forts
(1770's), various locations
Powell's Fort located on an unnamed creek that flowed into the Ogeechee River, near the headwaters of the Little River. Renamed Childer's Fort when the fort's militia commander was replaced. Possibly located near present-day Robinson.
Well's Fort located on the Ogeechee River, east of the forks, south of Crawfordville. Stood in 1777, attacked and destroyed by Indians in 1779. May be the same as Rogers' Fort (below).
Drury Rogers' Fort located on Poplar (Camp) Creek of the Ogeechee River. Attacked and destroyed by Indians in the spring of 1779 after its militia garrison had fled. May be the same as Well's Fort (above).
William Sherrall's Fort (1773-74) a blockhouse located on Sherrills Creek, about four miles from the head of the Ogeechee River, near the present-day border between Greene and Taliaferro counties, possibly near present-day Springfield. Attacked by Indians in January 1774, killing seven settlers including Sherrall.

Benjamin Fulsam's Fort
(1770's), near Mayfield
A settlers' fort located on the Ogeechee River above Fulsome Creek. Stood in 1777, attacked and destroyed by Indians in March 1779. The Indians then used the site as a temporary camp until a large force of Georgia militia arrived in the area to drive them away.

Capt. Solomon Newsome's Fort
(1770's), near Mesena
A settlers' fort located on the south side of Big Briar Creek in Warren County. Attacked by Indians in March 1779 after the fight at Fulsam's Fort, but were repulsed.

Shoulderbone Archaeological Site
(1325 - 1500 ?), Shoulderbone
A Late Mississippian Period palisaded Oconee (Ocute) Indian village and mound center. Site was excavated in 1986. This may have been the Indian village named Ocute that Hernando DeSoto visited in April 1540, and where a cannon was supposedly left behind. DeSoto did not report a palisade there, and no direct evidence has positively linked Ocute (undetermined location) with the Shoulderbone Site. The Shoulderbone Site had lost most of its population around 1500, and barely existed afterwards. Ocute was last visited by Gaspar de Salas and Friar Pedro de Chozas with 30 Indians in 1597.

Fort Twiggs (1)
(1793 - 1796), near Shoulderbone
A GA state militia 11-gun stockaded blockhouse located at the mouth of Shoulderbone Creek on the Oconee River.

Camp Davis (1)
(1861), Sparta
A CSA camp (June 1861) (Hancock Confederate Guards (infantry)) located at the Sparta fairgrounds.

Camp Simpson
(1861), near Sparta
A CSA camp (October 1861) (Georgia Guards) located near town.

Civil War Defenses of Milledgeville
(1864), Milledgeville
CSA earthworks surrounded the town in advance of Union General Sherman's campaign (November 1864). This was the state capital from 1803 until 1867. The State Arsenal on the north side of State House Square was burned by General Sherman's troops in November 1864, and the brick Powder Magazine on the south side was exploded, damaging the state house, the state library, and the nearby St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (1841) on South Wayne Street. The Old State Capitol Building has been the home of the Georgia Military College since 1879. It was restored in 1943 to its original configuration. The two sets of Gothic-style gates at State House Square were constructed after the war from recovered bricks from the destroyed Arsenal and Magazine.

CSA Camp Wayne (6) (August 1864) (Georgia Militia home guard) was located nearby.

Fort Fidius
(1793 - 1797), Milledgeville
A Federal post located on the east side of the Oconee River, about two miles below the mouth of Fishing Creek, to protect the Indian boundary from white settlers. Marker on King Street. Replaced by Fort Wilkinson on the west side of the river.

Fort Wilkinson
(1797 - 1806), Milledgeville
A Federal Indian trading post, or Factory, built on the west side of the Oconee River three miles south of town. Site marked on Fort Wilkinson Drive. This fort replaced Fort Fidius on the east side of the river as the Federal fort protecting the Indian boundary. It once had at one time the largest garrison of Federal troops south of the Ohio River. The Lower Creek Indian Agency was located here from 1797 until 1806 when it was relocated to Fort Hawkins. See also Forts Along the Federal Road by Joe Halstead

Fort at Federal Town
(1789 - 1793), Baldwin County
Also known as Fort at Rock Landing, it protected a tobacco trading center on the east side of the Oconee River. It was also the home of James Seagrove, the first Indian Agent to the Creek Nation in 1791. Replaced by Fort Fidius. Located about five miles south of Milledgeville. Marker located in town on King Street.

Fortville
(no date), Fortville
The town was named after either an early settlers' fort that may have been possibly located here, or more probably after the prominent "Fort" family of the region.

Fort Montpelier
(1794), Montpelier
Probably a settlers' fort, located on the Oconee River one-half mile below the town.

Fort Jackson (2)
(1813), Twiggs County ?
One of a string of forts built along the Ocmulgee River to protect settlers from the Creek Indians.

Fort Telfair (2)
(1813), Twiggs County ?
One of a string of forts built along the Ocmulgee River to protect settlers from the Creek Indians.

Camp Antioch
(1861), near Dry Branch
A CSA muster camp (August 1861) (Faulk Invincibles (infantry)) located near Antioch Church, east of town.

Fort Twiggs (2)
(1813 - 1814), near Tarversville
A 100-foot square stockade with two blockhouses to protect area settlers. State marker located on GA 96 one mile east of the Ocmulgee River (marker missing or removed).

General Elijah Clarke's Forts
(1794), Wilkinson County
General Elijah Clarke and his followers attempted to establish an independent republic west of the Oconee River (Trans-Oconee Republic), and built at least six forts in defiance of Federal Indian treaties with the Creek and Cherokee Indians. The attempt was short-lived, and is sometimes referred to as the "Oconee War". They were: Fort Advance on the Oconee River opposite Town Creek, Fort Defiance (1) six miles upstream from Fort Advance (1936 D.A.R. stone monument located at West Hancock and Jefferson Streets in Milledgeville), and Fort Winston (undetermined location). No information has been found for the other three.

Camp Liberty
(1861), Wilkinson County
A CSA muster camp (July 1861) (Oconee Grays (infantry)). Undetermined location (near Liberty Church ? near Wriley).

Camp Independence
(1861), Wilkinson County
A CSA muster camp (August 1861) (Oconee Grays (infantry)). Undetermined location.

Fort Irwin
(1810's), Washington County
A settlers' fort located near "Union Hill" (undetermined location), built by General Jared Irwin and his three brothers; John, William, and Alexander.

Camp Bethlehem
(1861), Washington County
A CSA muster camp (July-September 1861) (Jackson Guards (infantry)) located at or near the Bethlehem Academy, near Bethlehem Church. Other local militia companies were also probably here at the same time.

General Solomon Wood's Fort
(1790's ?), Bartow
A blockhouse built to protect against Indian raids. Marker located on US 319 east of town.

Roger Lawson's Fort
(1759 ?), Louisville
A settlers' fort. Ruins may possibly exist behind "Mount Pleasant", Lawson's house that was built in 1759.

Camp Lawton (5)
(Magnolia Springs State Park)
(1864), Lawton
A CSA 42-acre square stockaded POW camp, five miles north of Millen, built to relieve the overcrowding at Camp Sumter (Andersonville). It held about 10,000 men. About 750 prisoners died here. The camp garrison was composed of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Regiments of the Georgia Reserves (September-November 1864). There were two small uncompleted earthen forts to the southeast of the stockade, and a completed seven-gun earthen fort to the southwest of the stockade. After only two months operation, the camp was evacuated in November 1864 before General Sherman's "March to the Sea". The POWs were transferred to temporary camps in Blackshear and Thomasville. Earthworks still remain. See also Civil War Prisons in Georgia from the New Georgia Encyclopedia

Shell Bluff Battery
(1862 - 1865), near Shell Bluff
A CSA gun battery located on the Savannah River at the "Shell Bluff" (about 150 feet above the river bank) to block a possible Union Navy advance up the river to Augusta. The battery was later manned by CS Marines from the C.S.S. Macon during January 1865 (with only one gun ?) after she arrived at Augusta from Savannah. Located about 17 miles upriver from "Griffin's Landing", and about 300 yards upstream from "Shell Bluff Landing", just below the mouth of Boggy Gut Creek. Private property.

CSA Camp Dunbar (May 1862) (Companies C and E, 12th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery) was located on the bluff's summit near the battery.
CSA Camp Bob May (March 1862) (Company C, 48th Regiment Georgia Infantry) was located in a pine thicket near the bluff.

Moore's Fort (1)
(1736 - 1737), Augusta
A British trading post built by Roger Lacey. Possibly the precursor to Fort Augusta (1). (NOTE: possibly the same as Fort Moore in SOUTH CAROLINA ?)

Fort Augusta (1)
(History of St. Paul's Episcopal Church)
(1737 - 1767, 1776 - 1782), Augusta
Built on Kinyans Bluff to protect area settlers and traders. Originally 110 feet square with four bastions. No remains, site marked by the Celtic Cross Memorial behind St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Sixth and Reynolds Streets. The first church was built within the confines of the original fort in 1750. The fort was later occupied by Patriots from 1776 - 1779. The British recaptured the fort in January 1779, enlarged it, and renamed it Fort Cornwallis. Patriots briefly captured the fort in September 1780. The British surrendered the town in June 1781. The fort was demolished in 1786, and a new larger church was then built. The present church was built in 1918.
1781 Maham Tower state marker at Eighth and Reynolds Streets. (NOTE: "Maham" is misspelled "Mayham" on the marker.)

Robert MacKay's Trading Post
(1758 - 1770 ?, 1780), Augusta
A colonial trading post located one and one-half miles below town on the Savannah River. Also known as the White House. Still standing during the American Revolution, some British troops had regrouped here during the September 1780 Patriot attack of the town. Patriot forces lay seige to the White House until British reinforcements from Fort Ninety-Six, SC arrived. The wounded Patriots that were left behind were hanged, or taken with the Indians to be tortured. The so-called "MacKay House" (Harris-Pearson-Walker House) (built 1797) at 1822 Broad Street has been determined by archaeological research to have not been the historic trading post, nor the site of the 1780 seige.

Fort Grierson
(1780 - 1781), Augusta
The stockaded home of Loyalist James Grierson, located one-half mile from Fort Cornwallis. Captured by Patriots in May 1781. State marker is at Eleventh and Reynolds Streets.

Augusta Arsenal
(Summerville Campus, Georgia Regents University)
(1816 - 1819, 1827 - 1955/1970's), Augusta
The original site was three miles from the town center at the present-day Harrisonville railroad yards. Black fever killed off most of the garrison. Rebuilt at a new site in the Summerville area at present-day 2500 Walton Way, on the grounds of the Summerville campus of present-day Georgia Regents University. It consisted of two Officers' quarters, enlisted barracks, and a storehouse connected by a loop-holed brick wall. Confederates captured the complex in January 1861, and held it until May 1865. The Arsenal was still operational during both World Wars. Expanded with over 50 new buildings in WWII. The complex was closed and then became the new home of Augusta Junior College in 1958. Five acres were held for the Army Reserves until the 1970's (centered at Galloway Hall). The college was renamed Augusta State University in 1996, and was later merged with the Georgia Health Sciences University in 2013 to form the new school. Historic buildings in the original Arsenal Quadrangle include Payne, Fanning, and Rains Halls, and the Benet House; and the 1866 Guardhouse Museum (restored in 2003). Tours of the campus by reservation.

The still extant 168-foot tall brick chimney of the Confederate Powderworks Factory, constructed in 1861 along the Augusta Canal (National Heritage Area), is at 1717 Goodrich Street. Originally 26 buildings, this was the second largest munitions plant in the world at the time, extending for two miles along the canal. The abandoned factory was bought by the city in 1872 and torn down for new industry.

Civil War Defenses of Augusta
(1864), Augusta
Confederate General Braxton Bragg with 10,000 troops defended the city against Sherman's March to the Sea (November 1864), which never came. Earthworks and other defenses were quickly thrown up in several places (locations undetermined). The Magnolia Cemetery at 702 Third Street has cannon embrasures in the east wall. See also Shell Bluff Battery listed above.

CSA Camp Jackson (2) (May-July 1862) (12th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery) was located on the Savage Farm on the Carnes Road near Harrisonville.
CSA Camp Rains (September-October 1863) (1st Regiment Local Defense Troops) was located near Milledge Springs, on the Sand Hills near the city.

Camp Dyer
(1898), Augusta
A Spanish-American War training camp for black troops of the U.S. Army. Located in the Turpin Hill area. Later relocated to the Murray Hill area just north and west of Camp McKenzie.

Camp MacKenzie
(1898 - 1899), Augusta
A Spanish-American War winter camp for troops relocated south from several northern states, located near Wheless Station between Wrightsboro Road and Troupe Street, about four miles west of the city. Site adjacent to what would later become Daniel Field. Originally named Camp Samuel B.M. Young. Several streets in the area still bear the names of the states that the troops came from.

Camp Hancock (2)
(1917 - 1919), Augusta
A Federalized National Guard training encampment and demobilization center for the 28th Division. Site sold to the city after the war, becoming Daniel Air Field and a residential housing area.

Kiokee Fort
(1770's - 1780's), near Rosemont
A local militia stockade located on Kiokee Creek at or near its mouth on the Savannah River, in present Columbia County.

Fort Wrightsborough ?
(1768 - 1776), Wrightsboro
A town fort located on the site of the present-day Methodist Church. The town was originally named Brandon from 1754 to 1768. Patriots may have briefly taken control in 1776. See also New Georgia Encyclopedia entry

NEED MORE INFO: Old Garrison Road in Jones County.
Towns: Fort Valley in Peach County, most probably named for Arthur Fort (1750 - 1833), a prominent figure in early state history.

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