Regimental Camp Followers

Examples of Regimental Camp Followers in the following topics:

• The Revolutionary Army at Valley Forge

  • General George Washington and his army made camp at Valley Forge from December 1777 to June 1778 to protect Pennsylvania from the British.
  • The snow that collected around the camp was too sparse to be melted into water, and the damp conditions that resulted allowed disease to fester and spread easily.
  • The animals on camp fared no better.
  • Regimental Camp Followers, mostly consisting of the wives, children, mothers, and sisters of the soldiers, however, offered some support where Congress could not.
  • Camp Followers often served as laundresses, cleaning and mending the soldiers' uniforms.

• Conclusion: The Fight for Independence

  • The petition followed the Battle of Bunker Hill in which the British suffered massive casualties.
  • Following Saratoga, the British looked to Loyalist supporters in the South as a last hope.
  • General George Washington and his army made camp at Valley Forge from December 1777 to June 1778 to protect Pennsylvania from the British.
  • Disease quickly spread in the terrible conditions of the crowded camp, and Washington lost 2,500 of his 12,000 troops.
  • Approximately 500 Regimental Camp Followers, comprised primarily of family members of soldiers, however, did assist with foraging and cleaning for the troops.

• Military Segregation

  • Infantry Regiment.
  • A mutiny by soldiers at Camp Logan near Houston in 1917 was precipitated directly by segregation.
  • Infantry Regiment was transferred from Columbus, New Mexico, where segregation had not been enforced.
  • In Houston, however, they were met with segregated street cars and white workers at their camp who demanded separate water fountains.
  • Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters," it was the first all-black regiment.

• Frontier Revivals

  • In the newly settled frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of camp meetings.
  • The camp meeting was a religious service of several days' length involving multiple preachers.
  • Settlers in thinly populated areas would gather at the camp meeting for fellowship.
  • The revivals typically followed an arc of great emotional power and emphasized the individual's sins and need to turn to Christ, and subsequent personal salvation.
  • One of the early camp meetings took place in July 1800 at Gasper River Church in southwestern Kentucky.

• Hispanics in WWII

  • Some active combat units recruited from areas of high Hispanic population, such as the 65th Infantry Regiment from Puerto Rico and the 141st Regiment of the 36th Texas Infantry, were made up mostly of Hispanics.
  • Company E of the 141st Regiment was entirely Hispanic.
  • By April 29, 1944, the Regiment had landed in Italy and moved on to Corsica.
  • The regiment suffered 23 soldiers killed in action.
  • These Hispanic and non-Hispanic soldiers endured the 12-day, 85-mile (137 km) Bataan Death March from Bataan to the Japanese prison camps, where they were force-marched in scorching heat through the Philippine jungle.

• The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds and the Fight for the Black Hills

  • The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed with the US by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne leaders following Red Cloud's War, set aside a portion of the Lakota territory as the Great Sioux Reservation.
  • On the day before, a detachment of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Major Samuel M.
  • Whitside, intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them 5 miles westward (8 km) to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp.
  • On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota.

• The Holocaust

  • Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between extermination camps and concentration camps.
  • Instead, the ghettos' inhabitants were sent to extermination camps.
  • At this time, as the Soviet armed forces approached, the camps in eastern Poland were closed down, any surviving inmates being shipped west to camps closer to Germany.
  • Local commanders continued to kill Jews, and to shuttle them from camp to camp by forced "death marches" until the last weeks of the war.
  • Some 60,000 prisoners were discovered at Bergen-Belsen by the British, 13,000 corpses lay unburied, and another 10,000 died from typhus or malnutrition over the following weeks.

• The Camp David Accords

  • The Camp David Accords were part of the Middle East peace process through comprehensive, multi-lateral negotiations.
  • The Camp David Accords were the result of 18 months of intense diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Israel, and the United States that began after Jimmy Carter became President.
  • The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following thirteen days of secret negotiations at Camp David.
  • There were two 1978 Camp David agreements: A Framework for Peace in the Middle East and A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, the second leading towards the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty signed in March 1979.
  • Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat with U.S. president Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978.

• The American Indian Wars

  • Increasing settlement following the passage of the Homestead Act and the building of the transcontinental railways following the Civil War further destabilized the situation, placing white settlers into direct competition for the land and resources of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountain West.
  • The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed with the United States by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne leaders following Red Cloud's War, set aside a portion of the Lakota territory as the Great Sioux Reservation.
  • On the day before, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Major Samuel M.
  • Whitside, intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them five miles westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp.
  • On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota.

• Fort Ticonderoga

  • In 1775, it was garrisoned by only a small detachment of the 26th Regiment of Foot, consisting of two officers and 46 men, many of whom had limited duties because of disability or illness.
  • En route to Boston following news of the events of April 19, Arnold mentioned the fort and its condition to members of Silas Deane's militia.
  • Washington eventually chose the young Henry Knox to transport heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army camps outside of Boston.