Camp Hamilton[1] the camp was established on the James Clark farm on Bryan Station Pike, 4½ miles east of Lexington, near Montrose during the Spanish American War. The camp was officially named for Colonel John M. Hamilton, of the 9th Cavalry, who was killed on July 1, 1898, at the Battle of San Juan Hill.
[1] The camp was called Camp Henry Clay initially, but changed to Camp Hamilton after the War Department’s policy of naming camps for soldiers who died during the war. The camp may have also been known as Camp Sanger, named for Brigadier General Joseph P. Sanger, commander of the First Corp of the Army, who oversaw the movement from Chickamauga Park to Lexington.
References:
William M. Ambrose, Bluegrass Military Camps, Limestone Press, Lexington, 2012.
