Camp Holbrook

Camp Holbrook is a Vermont historical marker in Franklin County.

55 Old Orchard Road, St. Albans Town

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This site, the former Henry Seymour farm, became a Civil War camp named in honor of Vermonts second Civil War Governor, Frederick Holbrook. Over 1000 men of the 5th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment camped on this land and were mustered in to Federal service for three years on Sept. 16, 1861. A week later they marched 1 miles to the St. Albans train station and departed for Washington, D.C. In the late winter and early spring of 1865, Camp Holbrook was again the site of military activity. Two companies of the frontier cavalry recruited immediately after the St. Albans Raid on Oct. 19, 1864 occupied the nearby fields. These soldiers patrolled the borderlands providing security for the citizens of Vermont until midsummer of 1865.

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1849 · Vermont & New Hampshire. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1858 · Colton's New York (1858) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Colton's New York (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1861 · Canada W. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Railroad and post office map of Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Colton's New York (1859), 1859, covering the location of Camp Holbrook, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Colton's New York (1859), 1859, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Camp Holbrook

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