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tactical skill, qualities which were sternly 

 required for the part he later played in 

 the Wilderness campaign. He saw more 

 service during the Reconstruction days, 

 and was the unsuccessful candidate for 

 the Presidency against Garfield. A Penn- 

 sylvanian by birth, he is appropriately 

 honored in this camp for Pennsylvania's 

 soldiers. 



CAMP WHEELER 



Camp Wheeler lies seven miles south- 

 east of Macon, Ga. Here the National 

 Guard troops of Alabama, Florida, and 

 Georgia are in training. The Macon, 

 Dublin and Savannah Railroad crosses 

 the camp and connects with the Southern 

 Terminal in Macon. 



Macon is the center of an extensive 

 cotton trade and has steamboat connec- 

 tion with Brunswick and Savannah. 



The climate is generally mild and 

 pleasant, with an average annual temper- 

 ature of 63 °. The record high temper- 

 ature is 104 , while winter rigors may 

 hardly be said to exist, the lowest mark 

 of the mercury being io°. The elevation 

 is between 300 and 400 feet. In the av- 

 erage year about 246 days are clear or 

 only partly cloudy. 



General Joseph E. Wheeler, for whom 

 this camp is named, was born at Augusta, 

 Ga. A West Point graduate of 1859, he 

 became one of the ablest cavalry leaders 

 of the Confederate army, and rose to the 

 rank of lieutenant general. After the 

 war he served for 19 years in Congress, 

 then, returning to the army, commanded 

 a U. S. cavalry division in the Spanish- 

 American War. After two years more 

 of service, commanding a brigade in the 

 Philippines, he was commissioned a brig- 

 adier general and retired in 1900. He 

 died in 1906 and was buried at Arlington. 



CAMP MC CLELEAN 



Five miles from Anniston, Ala., is lo- 

 cated Camp McClellan, the encampment 

 for the National Guardsmen of New Jer- 

 sey, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, and 

 the District of Columbia. A great ex- 

 panse of maneuver grounds extends north 

 and east from the encampment. 



The advantages of this location for 

 military operations were recognized sev- 



eral years ago, and the National Guard 

 of eight Southern States held their field 

 maneuvers here in 1912. Camp and town 

 are surrounded by the foothills of the 

 Blue Ridge. 



The record high temperature is 103 ° 

 and the annual average 61 °. The lowest 

 record of the mercury is g° above zero. 

 The sun shines on 208 days of the aver- 

 age year. 



Anniston was founded in 1873 by the 

 Woodstock Iron Company, and for ten 

 years existed merely as a part of that 

 company's business. 



This camp bears a name that is con- 

 spicuous in the military annals of the 

 United States. Major General George B. 

 McClellan was a West Point graduate of 

 1846. In the Mexican War he was bre- 

 vetted first lieutenant and later captain for 

 gallantry. Between the Mexican and the 

 Civil War he was one of three officers 

 commissioned as military observers in the 

 Crimea, and then leaving the army he be- 

 came first an official of the Illinois Cen- 

 tral and afterward president of the St. 

 Louis and Cincinnati Railroad. At the 

 outbreak of the Civil War he was ap- 

 pointed major general of volunteers and 

 made a successful campaign in West Vir- 

 ginia. After the first battle of Bull Run 

 he was placed in command of the Army 

 of the Potomac, having been commis- 

 sioned a major general in the Regular 

 Army, and in November, 1861, he became 

 commander of the Army of the United 

 States. In the presidential election of 

 1864, McClellan was Lincoln's opponent, 

 and was defeated by a popular majority 

 of about 400,000. Thereafter he was oc- 

 cupied chiefly with engineering enter- 

 prises and served one term as Governor 

 of New Jersey, declining renomination. 



CAMP SHERIDAN 



Camp Sheridan, occupied by troops of 

 the National Guard of Ohio and West 

 Virginia, lies north of the city limits of 

 Montgomery, Ala. 



The sun shines in Montgomery about 

 260 days a year. The average annual 

 temperature is 65 , with 107 as the 

 greatest summer heat and 5 above zero 

 as the record in low temperature. 



The hostess city of this encampment is 



