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Subject: [AL-MACON] Re: Camp Watts @ Notasulga, Alabama
Date: 2 Jan 2002 10:01:12 -0700

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Surnames: Mitchell
Classification: Query

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I am also interested in the history of Camp Watts, near Notasulga, AL.

Since Camp Watts, Camp No. 1 of Instruction, was named after the Tom Watts, Attorney General, and later Governor of Alabama, his archived papers may have some information.

Also, the Civil War medical records for Camp Watts, near Notasulga, AL, are in two special collections: Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, and also in the Records Center, Texas State Library. These collections are under the ledger of Samuel Hollingsworth Stout. Dr. Stout was the head of the Confederate Medical Department, Army of Tennesee.

The Conscript Hospital was the name of the Camp Watts hospital.

Also, there is a Alabama Civil War Homepage. You might ask the library first.

My interest is in geneaology. I am posting to the National Archives and Records, Military Records, in Washington, D.C., for the compiled service record of Warren Anderson Mitchell, recruiting, and that's what my interest is. Mr. Mitchell, my long granddaddy, was a native of Jones County, Georgia, and died on November 20, 1862, of pneumonia, at Camp Watts, near Notasulga. Mr. MitchelI was taken back to his old home for his widow. I was able to find the Confederate Widows Pension Claim of his wife, Lucinda Christian Mitchell, dated August 24, 1891, Jones County, Georgia. The widow's pension claim provided good information. I obtained it from the Washington Memorial Library, Macon, Georgia.

I understand that there were only two camps of instruction in Alabama during the Civil War, Camp Watts near Notasulga and the other at Talledega. Apparently, at one time, there were employed about 5,000 people at Camp Watts, near Notasulga; however, at this time it is grazing land.

NARA is good information. Do let me see what you know about Camp Watts. What is your inteest in Camp Watts?

Terri A. Hastiongs

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