Smith River Reservation

[1]: 312 Camp Lincoln was built nearby to replace Fort Ter-Waw, which also had been severely damaged in the flood.

Camp Lincoln was built to protect the American citizens in the vicinity of Crescent City from the native people.

However, it was moved on September 11, 1862, by Major James F. Curtis to a location six miles north of the city in a clearing in a forest of redwoods near the reservation.

In September, 1862, over 800 of the native people captured in the Bald Hills War were sent to the Reservation.

The garrison was given the additional task of preventing them from escaping and returning to the Bald Hills and Eel River country.