Tennessee Camp Explained

Tennessee Camp
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 19, 2008[1]
Designated Other1 Number:089-5207
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Nearest City:Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia
Added:November 12, 2008
Mpsub:Campaigns for the Control of Navigation on the Lower Potomac River, 1861-1862, Virginia, Maryland, and DC, MPS
Refnum:08001059

Tennessee Camp, also known as 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Camp and Camp Bate, is a historic archaeological site and American Civil War encampment located at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Stafford County, Virginia. It was the location of a winter Confederate States Army regimental-sized camp from September 1861 through February 1862. It consists of at least 141 hut pits, surface features remaining from 'dugout' huts utilized as winter quarters by soldiers during the Civil War era.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Tennessee Camp. John H. Haynes, Jr.. July 2005. DoD Energy, Environment, Safety & Occupational Health Network and Information Exchange. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071149/http://www.denix.osd.mil/cr/upload/Nomination_44ST0302.pdf. 2016-03-04.