Confederate Camp Milner

Confederate Camp Milner is a Georgia historical marker in Spalding County, dedicated 1956.

In Municipal Park, on Country Club Drive in Griffin.

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Most Georgia troops for the Confederate Army were mobilized in Griffin. Camp Milner, the Cavalry Camp, was named for Ben Milner, prominent Spalding County man who gave financial aid in equipping companies from his county. Camp Stephens, the Infantry Camp, was north of Griffin on McIntosh Road. Griffin and Spalding County furnished 9 companies to the Army and several to the Georgia Militia for local service. Camp Milner became Camp Northen, named for Gov. W. J. Northen, in 1898. During the Spanish-American War it was a training camp and mobilization center for National Guard. Later a fairgrounds, its is now the Municipal Park.

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Historical maps covering this location

1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Gen. map IX. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Gen. map VIII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Military map, W.T. Sherman. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1869, covering the location of Confederate Camp Milner, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1869, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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