Camp Washburn - "AND THE WAR CAME" Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/23/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Patterson Park  -   Should be an easy day.

"Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, AND THE WAR CAME." Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865. 




During the Civil War several of Baltimore's parks were Union Encampments. Patterson Park was no exception.  Such encampments were not only to protect Baltimore from Confederate invasion, but more importantly, to keep Baltimore from seceding from the Union.  Many of Baltimore's residents had "Secessionist Fever".



A 2000 bed surgical hospital was erected in Patterson Park and named Camp Washburn, after then governor of Maine, Israel Washburn. The 10th Maine Regiment was the first to occupy Patterson Park under Col. George L. Beale.  The park would be home to several regiments including the 6th Wisconsin Infantry, 159th Ohio, 7th and 10th Maine, 110th Regular New York Volunteers, 3rd Maryland, and 19th Pennsylvania. After the war many of these troops stayed in Baltimore, living the the neighborhoods near the park.



A rifleman from the 6th Wisconsin, Howard J. Huntington, writing a letter home, described how local pro-secessionist called Pug-Ulgies attacked the camp and that he and his fellow troops fired back. "The Chesapeake bay is near us and the beautiful city of Baltimore surrounds us....We had just executed an order when a bullet passed by my ear...There was some firing and a cow and one secessionist was killed." In 1863 he and his regiment The Wisconsin Iron Brigade would fight in the Battle of Gettysburg.  He was wounded at the battle and returned along with thousands of his fellow soldiers to convalesce at the Camp Washburn hospital. 

In 1864 the hospital and the camp were disbanded and all the military building were razed. The once green landscape was barren and brown.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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