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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 17, 2015
Caption: Barracks & Kitchen
Additional Description: Built on the existing Gurnard structures in 1862 by the U.S. Army, these there rooms were used as barracks and mess hall. The crude bunks slept two men to a bed. Soldiers from the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry were stationed here beginning in 1862. The 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Third U.S. Infantry and Sixth U.S. Infantry replace the Ohio volunteers in the summer of 1865.
Submitted: December 24, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p342697
File Size: 3.474 Megabytes

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