Camp George Meade

Camp Meade was established August 24, 1898, and soon thereafter was occupied by the Second Army Corps, of about 22,000 men[1] under command of Maj. Gen. William M. Graham, which had been moved from Camp Alger in an attempt to outrun the typhoid fever epidemic.

[2] Camp Meade was visited by President William McKinley on August 27, 1898.

[5] The 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Second Army Corps was relocated to Camp Fornance, Columbia, South Carolina, and a brigade of the 1st Division, Second Corps to Camp Marion, Summerville, South Carolina.

Part of the camp was reopened in April 1899 for the muster out of a number of volunteer units (2nd, 4th, 5th and 9th U.S. Vol.

In addition, several of the new volunteer regiments authorized by Congress in 1899 for the Philippine–American War assembled there during July to November 1899.

Named after George Gordon Meade, (1815–1872) a career United States Army officer and famous Civil War general.

The regiment remained there until it left for Camp Wetherill, Greenville, South Carolina, on November 12, 1898.