Camp Babbitt - Historic Visalia Series #7 Traditional Geocache
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Camp Babbitt - Historic Visalia Series #7
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"Established on June 24, 1862, by two companies of the 2nd California Cavalry, one mile from the town of Visalia, Tulare County, the post was intended to maintain order in the area where rabid pro Confederate partisans were creating unrest.
Two companies of union soldiers arrived in Visalia and were stationed at Camp Babbitt in the year 1862. California was important to the Union cause, because of its gold and livestock. Since the town was southern in sympathy, the troops were quartered here throughout the Civil War.
These soldiers did not have to do any fighting in the war, but they did keep order in the community. The garrison was also engaged in putting down Indian uprisings in the Owens River Valley. The post was named for Lieutenant Colonel E. B. Babbitt, Quartermaster General of the Pacific. On October 2. 1865, the post was relocated about a mile northeast of its first site. Various dates have heen given for its abandonment, from late in 1865 to August 19, 1866.
(See an additional Camp Babbitt monument around the corner at 539 North Santa Fe.)
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