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Camp New Supply
(Old Supply Camp; Scorpion Point
Camp; Boyle's Camp; Peninsula Camp)
The first supply depot established for the
long protracted Modoc War in 1873, it is historically known as
the Old Supply Camp or Scorpion Point Camp to differentiate it
from the new depot which soon replaced it nearer the town of
Newell, northeast of the eastern edge of today's Lava Beds
National Monument, in Modoc County.
The Battle of Scorpion Point took place in
the near environs of the camp, about six miles south of Newell
(apparently named for Frederick H. Newell, the first chief
engineer of the U.S. Reclamation Service).
Camp New Supply, alternately known as
Boyle's Camp or Peninsula Camp, was established by Major
William H. Boyle, one of General E. R. S. Canby's battalion
commanders during the war against Captain Jack and his Modocs,
after the Indians fled into the Lava Beds. Major Boyle
suffered a thigh wound and did not finish the campaign. Late
in the campaign the supply base served as a prisoner of war
camp.
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