Camp Drum

Camp Drum refers to two US military facilities:

  • A Civil War era military encampment active from 1862–1873 near Los Angeles; see Drum Barracks. The Drum Barracks Civil War Museum presently occupies part of the original camp.
  • The present Fort Drum near Watertown, New York, which was named Camp Drum from 1951–1973.

Famous quotes containing the words camp and/or drum:

    “Killers, huh? I’d trade the pair of you for a good Camp Fire Girl.”
    —Daniel Taradash (b. 1913)

    “Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
    As his corse to the rampart we hurried;”
    —Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)