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Posts:
- Camp Anderson
- (Post near Sacramento City, Post
near Sutterville)
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- Major Julius J. B. Kingsbury with a battalion
of the 2nd Infantry established a post in a swamp south of Sutterville
about a dozen miles from Sacramento City, for the purpose of
staging in advance to the Bear River to establish Camp
Far West. The camp was named for 2nd Lieutenant Charles C.
Anderson, 7th New York
Volunteers, when had earlier commanded Fort
Sacramento (Sutter's Fort) and died at San Francisco. September
13, 1847, from a fever contracted while on detached service at
Fort Sacramento. A few days later the camp was moved to the levee
next to Sutterville's landing site on the east bank of the Sacramento
River, three miles south of Fort Sacramento. Unhappy in California,
the major shortly before September 17 turned the command over
to Captain Hannibal Day and took an unauthorized leave of absence.
On September 22, Captain Day and the battalion abandoned Camp
Anderson and marched overland to the Bear River.
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