Related Historical Markers

By Regina Liparoto

Camp Benning Marker

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus — Camp Benning —

Camp Benning established on this site in 1918 as the U.S. Army infantry school. Originally embracing 85 adjoining acres in 1919, the garrison was permanently located nine miles southeast of Columbus and is now designated Fort Benning. — — Map (db m223053) HM

2 ► Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus — 1918 Diamond Jubilee 1993 Camp Benning / Fort Benning — Reported missing

Side 1: In October 1918, the Infantry School of Arms was established on 80 acres of land near here. Camp Benning, later Fort Benning, was named in honor of Confederate Infantry General Lewis Benning, a Columbus resident. The camp’s first . . . — — Map (db m23176) HM

3 ► Georgia, Chattahoochee County, Fort Benning — Fort Benning / Fort Benning Military Reservation —

Side 1: Fort Benning Kasihta or Cusseta Town, an important Creek Nation market, played a part in American Revolutionary affairs. In 1780 British Colonel John Tate recruited a large force of local Indians for duty with the British in . . . — — Map (db m57897) HM

4 ► Georgia, Chattahoochee County, Fort Benning — Fort Benning - Station Hospital / National Infantry Museum —

Fort Benning - Station Hospital In 1923 the U.S. Congress appropriated funds for the erection of a hospital at Fort Benning. The hospital complex, consisting of ten buildings, was opened in 1925. During World War Two as many as 36, 000 . . . — — Map (db m57705) HM

5 ► Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus — 106-8 — General Benning —

Opposite this marker stood the home of Henry Lewis Benning (1814-1875), the Confederate Brigadier General for whom Fort Benning was named. He was married in 1839 to Mary Howard Jones, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Seaborn Jones. General . . . — — Map (db m46996) HM