Civil War Camp

Near here a Civil War
training camp was built in
August 1861. Named Camp
Holton, Camp Sigel and
finally Camp Reno, its
boundaries were Prospect
and Bartlett Avenues and
Lafayette and Royall Places.
Six Wisconsin infantry
regiments, almost 7,000
men, were mustered in
and equipped for the Union
Army here. Two other Civil
War posts, Camps Scott
and Washburn, were on
the city’s west side.