As Most Soldiers Have Demobilized, Government Announces Closing of Several Army Camps, July 1919

From the Hickory Daily Record, July 3, 1919

Several Camps Are to Be Abandoned

By the Associated Press

Washington, July 3—With the great bulk of the expeditionary forces returned and demobilized, the war department announced today that after July 10 it would be no longer necessary to use Camp Meade, Md., Custer, Mich., Bowie, Texas, Funston, Texas, and Jackson, South Carolina, and Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for demobilization centers.