30th Infantry Division

Description:

Sepia toned photograph of two trains in a depot yard waiting to take the 30th Infantry Division (Old Hickory) to Camp Jackson in Columbia for demobilization. The image was shot from a high elavation looking down on the tracks. Handwritten on reverse reads, "Troop trains taking the 30th Division".

In 1918 the United States Government requisitioned 2000 acres located between North Charleston and the mouth of Goose Creek (approximately 15 miles north of the Charleston Harbor) for the Charleston Army Depot. The quartermaster facility along with the Ordnance Depot and the Animal Embarkation Depot formed what would officially be titled the Charleston Port Terminal but called the "Army Base Terminal" by locals.

• Title: 30th Infantry Division
• Photographer: [Burton, E. Milby (1898-1977)]
• Date: March 1919

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: World War I
• Object Id: MK 10902c

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