Historic California Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields
Camp Terrill
 
A temporary training camp location that existed in July of 1888 and located in San Jose. It appears that this was a camp for the California National Guard's 1st Infantry Regiment was in attendance. Photographs located at the US Army's Military History Institute show Companies C and G were definitely at the camp.
 
Officers and their wives of the 1st Infantry Regiment, National Guard of California, Camp Terrill, June 1888.
 
Extract, 1888-1890 Report of the Adjutant General, National Guard of California:
The First Regiment of Infantry encamped at San José from July twenty-second to twenty-ninth; it was designated “Camp Terrill” in honor of Major Francis H. Terrill, Surgeon of the regiment, who died in the month of January preceding the encampment. There was an average attendance during the eight days of two hundred and seventy-eight .
 
 
 
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Updated 11 January 2021