Camp Delaware, Ohio: Where the 27th USCT Trained

A few posts ago, I mentioned that the 27th USCT trained at Camp Delaware.  Well, Camp Delaware is not in the state of Delaware as I thought, but in Ohio in the town of Delaware.  The camp takes it name after the town.

It was used 1862-1864.  In 1863, the camp was expanded.  White troops trained on the west bank of the Olentangy River.  Blacks on the east side.

The 96th, 121st and 127th Ohio regiments trained there as did the 5th and 27th USCT.  The 5th USCT were also at Fort Fisher, but, like the 27th, just during the second attack.

The camp was located at the intersection of Sanduskey Street and Olentangy Avenue in Delaware, Ohio.

The HMdb says the camp for Blacks was established in 1863 and that other black units from Ohio trained here.

--Old B-Runner