Fort McPherson is a U.S. Army base located in southwest Atlanta, Georgia. It is the home to the 3rd U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve Command (USARC), and Forces Command (FORSCOM). Named for Major GeneralJames Birdseye McPherson, the base was founded in September of 1885. The site, however, has been in use since 1835 and saw use as a Confederate post during the American Civil War. During the Reconstruction era, it was named McPherson Barracks and served as a base for federal troops occupying Atlanta. Fort Gillem, its neighbor and sub-installation, shares several common services, morale support activities, and other activities.
FortMcPherson is home to the headquarters of the U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM), which is responsible for the command and control, unit training, and operational readiness of the active army, National Guard, and reserve.
During the Spanish-American War, FortMcPherson served as a major military hospital and held a small number of prisoners from the Cuban campaign.
FortMcPherson also became an officer training camp, a mechanical repair depot, and home to General Hospital no. 6, which treated the sick sent from various training camps around the country and the wounded from the battlefields.
During the Spanish-American War (1898), FortMcPherson, on the southwest side of Atlanta, held sixteen Spanish prisoners of war who were captured in Cuba.
Six hundred of the enlisted men at FortMcPherson were then sent to satellite labor camps to work on farms.
Fort Oglethorpe was left largely with the German cultural and intellectual elite.
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