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 .