Camp Zachary Taylor was a military training camp in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened in 1917, to train soldiers for the U.S. involvement in World War I, and was closed three years later. For other places with the same name, see Louisville (disambiguation). ... State nickname: Bluegrass State Other U.S. States Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Governor Ernie Fletcher Official languages English Area 104,749 km² (37th) - Land 102,989 km² - Water 1,760 km² (1. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald trained at the camp. F.Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940), was a Jazz Age novelist. ...
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Camp Zachary Taylor (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pocky/camptaylor.html)
ZacharyTaylor, then in his twenty-fourth year, applied for a commission and was appointed a 1st lieutenant in the 7th infantry, one of the new regiments, and in 1810 was promoted to the grade of captain in the same regiment, according to the regulations of the service.
Taylor's infantry pushed through the chaparral lining both sides of the road, and drove the enemy's infantry before them; but the batteries held their position, and were so fatally used that it was an absolute necessity to capture them.
Taylor was without social ambition, and when General Taylor became president she reluctantly accepted her responsibilities, regarding the office as a "plot to deprive her of her husband's society and to shorten his life by unnecessary care." She surrendered to her youngest daughter the superintendence of the household, and took no part in social duties.
The WW I training camp named for President ZacharyTaylor became one of 16 national army camps in the U.S. Begun in June 1917 and built in 90 days on 2,730 acres, the camp contained some 1,700 buildings and housed over 40,000 troops.
CampZacharyTaylor was born shortly after, six miles south of town, on rolling farm land covered with cornstalks, cow pastures, barns and vegetable gardens.
Centenarian Charlie Hayden (1896-2002), a veteran of CampZacharyTaylor.
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