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- Camp Jackson
- (Camp near Ione
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- This post, located near lone (formerly
lone City), Amador County, then in a gold mining region, was
established by Company D, 2nd California
Volunteer Cavalry, in March 1865 and remained in garrison
for three months.
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- In 1865, the publisher or the Amador
Distpatch, William Penry bought a building that still stands
at 37 Main Street in the rearby town town of Jackson. The Dispatch's
fiery editorials in support of the south, and intemperate remarks
upon the death of Abraham Lincoln, goaded federal authorities
to close the paper and arrest its editors. Thus, in early May,
1865, troopers from the 2nd California Cavalry cordoned off the
building, front and back, and led Penry and L.P. Hall in chains
down to Camp Jackson in lone. Later, they spent time at Alcatraz. Union-supporting townsmen
got revenge, too. They torched the building, forcing Penry on
his return to tear the second story down. It's been a one-story
building ever since since.
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