On Saturday (November 23), about 100 people gathered at the Philadelphia Country Club to commemorate the Union Army’s Camp Discharge, located there, toward the end of the Civil War.
In 1864 and 1865, as many as 1,100 Union Soldiers were housed at Camp Discharge. The camp was established by the Army to manage Union soldiers, primarily Pennsylvania volunteers, who were released from Confederate prison camps and were awaiting discharge, as their terms of duty expired. Many of these soldiers were in poor condition upon arrival at the camp…