When was the General of American Civil War born who established Camp Smith?
September 21, 1825
Frederick Townsend
Frederick Townsend (September 21, 1825 – September 12, 1897) was a Union officer in the American Civil War.
 He founded and was Colonel of the 3rd New York Regiment, and later served with the US Army's 18th Infantry, where he was brevetted a brigadier general.
 Townsend served three terms as Adjutant General of New York from 1857–1861, and again in 1880.
Camp Smith (New York)
Camp Smith is a military installation of the New York Guard in Cortlandt Manor near Peekskill, NY, about 30 mi north of New York City, at the northern border of Westchester County, and consists of 1900 acre .
 Established in 1882 by General Frederick Townsend, Adjutant General of New York, it was formerly known as "Camp Townsend", but was renamed in 1919 to "Camp Smith" for Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York.
Thomas H. Taylor
Thomas Hart Taylor (July 31, 1825 – April 12, 1901) was a Confederate States Army colonel, brigade commander, provost marshal and last Confederate post commander at Mobile, Alabama during the American Civil War (Civil War).
 His appointment as a brigadier general was refused by the Confederate Senate after Confederate President Jefferson Davis failed to nominate Taylor, apparently following Davis's appointment of Taylor to the rank.
 Nonetheless, Taylor's name is frequently found on lists and in sketches of Confederate generals.
 He was often referred to as a general both during the Civil War and the years following it.
 Before the Civil War, Taylor served as a first lieutenant in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Mexican-American War.
 After that war, he was a cattle driver, farmer and lawyer.
 After the Civil War, he was engaged in business in Mobile, Alabama for five years, and after returning to Kentucky, was a Deputy U.S. Marshal for five years and was chief of police at Louisville, Kentucky for eleven years. William Henry Wallace
William Henry Wallace (March 24, 1827 – March 21, 1901) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War (Civil War).
 Before the Civil War, he was a planter, newspaper publisher, lawyer and South Carolina legislator in 1860 who supported the state calling a secession convention.
 He served in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, including service as a brigade commander in the Army of Northern Virginia.
 After the Civil War, he was a lawyer, planter, South Carolina legislator and circuit judge. Eric J. Wittenberg
Eric J. Wittenberg (born March 26, 1961) is an American Civil War (Civil War) historian, author, lecturer, tour guide and battlefield preservationist.
 He is a practicing attorney in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
 His published works have focused especially on the Civil War cavalryman and the cavalry battles of the Civil War, with emphasis on the Army of the Potomac's Cavalry Corps.
 His first book, "Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions", was chosen as the best new work addressing the Battle of Gettysburg in 1998, winning the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey's Bachelder-Coddington Award.
 The second edition of this book, published in 2011, won the U. S. Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Writing Award for that year's best reprint.
 In 2015, his book "The Devil's to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg" won the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable's 2015 Book Award.
 He was a member of the Governor of Ohio’s Advisory Commission on the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War and has been active with several Civil War battlefield preservation organizations.
 He and his wife Susan Skilken Wittenberg reside on the east side of Columbus, Ohio. Camp Chase
Camp Chase was a military staging and training camp established in Columbus, Ohio in May 1861 after the start of the American Civil War.
 It also included a large Union-operated prison camp for Confederate prisoners during the American Civil War. Joseph H. Tucker
Joseph H. Tucker (1819  – October 22, 1894) was a banker, businessman and Illinois militia colonel during the first two years of the American Civil War (Civil War).
 He was given initial responsibility for building Camp Douglas at Chicago, Illinois, and was the first commander of the camp.
 Originally a training camp for Union Army recruits, in 1862 and 1863 Camp Douglas was converted into a prison camp for Confederate States Army prisoners captured by the Union Army.
 Tucker was commander of the camp from the start of its construction in October 1861 until September 28, 1862, except between February 26, 1862, and June 19, 1862.
 During this time, the camp was used as a training facility and had its initial use as a prisoner of war camp.
 Tucker was never mustered into the Union Army, remaining a colonel in the Illinois militia during the term of his service in the Civil War. Camp Stanton
Camp Edwin M. Stanton (usually known as just Camp Stanton) was an American Civil War training camp that existed from 1861-1862 in Lynnfield, Massachusetts.
 When the camp first opened in 1861, it was known as Camp Schouler, named for Massachusetts Adjutant General William Schouler.
 After President Abraham Lincoln's call for 300,000 troops in July 1862, the camp was revived and renamed in honor of United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
 It served as the training camp and rendezvous for recruits from Eastern Massachusetts (recruits from Western Massachusetts were sent to Camp Wool in Worcester, Massachusetts).
 Soldiers stationed at Camp Schouler/Stanton during training included Edward A. Wild, Henry Wilson, Nelson A. Miles, Edward Winslow Hinks, and Arthur F. Devereux.
 During World War I it was renamed Camp Houston and served as a Massachusetts National Guard mobilization camp in 1917.
 It was located on the Newburyport Turnpike (now part of U.S. Route 1) near the Peabody, Massachusetts line.
 The camp was divided into streets, with tents and cook houses located on both sides of the Turnpike to Suntaug Lake. Fort Mason, Arizona Territory
Following the Gadsden Purchase, the United States Army sent Major Enoch Steen and four companies of the 1st U. S. Dragoons (now the 1st U. S. Cavalry) to occupy the former site of the Mexican Presidio de Calabasas.
 Major Steen arrived on November 27, 1856, and named his post Camp Moore.
 The dragoons put roofs on the old adobe structures and added a few new ones.
 Camp Moore was abandoned in March 1857 after another location in the San Rafael Valley was chosen for a permanent fort that was christened Fort Buchanan.
 With the coming of the American Civil War all military posts in western New Mexico Territory (now Arizona) were abandoned.
 Old Camp Moore at Calabasas was briefly occupied by the Confederates in March 1862, just before the arrival of the California Column in April.
 The California Volunteers posted troops at Tucson and Tubac, and established Fort Bowie.
 In September 1865 the garrison at Tubac, Arizona was transferred to Old Camp Moore at Calabasas and it was named Fort Mason in honor of General Mason, who was commander of the California Volunteers.
 The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, California Volunteers and 7th Regiment California Volunteer Infantry occupied the post until they were relieved by troops of the United States Army in May 1866.
 Due to persistent malaria, the Regulars abandoned Fort Mason in October 1866 and established Camp Cameron.
 Camp Moore and Fort Mason were collocated south of the confluence of Potrero Creek and the Santa Cruz River.
 Camp Cameron was about 16 miles northeast of Fort Mason and existed from October 1, 1866 to March 7, 1867. Powder Magazine (Camp Drum)
The Powder Magazine from Camp Drum is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument located in the Wilmington section of Los Angeles, California, near the Port of Los Angeles.
 Built in 1862, the Powder Magazine is a 20 x brick and stone structure that was used to store gunpowder during the Civil War.
 It was originally part of Camp Drum, a facility built upon the outbreak of the American Civil War to address concerns about the loyalty and security of the Los Angeles area.
 Many of the area's residents were recent arrivals from the Southern states, and southerner John C. Breckinridge received twice as many local votes as Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 Presidential election.
 Phineas Banning, the founder of Wilmington (then known as New San Pedro), wrote to President Lincoln advising that the Union would lose California unless some provision was made to quell pro-Confederacy sentiment.
 Camp Drum was built between 1862 and 1863 and was the home base for the California Column, commanded by Colonel James Henry Carleton.
 Between 2,000 and 7,000 soldiers were stationed at Camp Drum, and Wilmington became a thriving community with a population greater than Los Angeles during the war.
 The Powder Magazine is one of only two surviving structures from Camp Drum, the other being the Drum Barracks, which is now operated as a Civil War museum by the City of Los Angeles.
 The Powder Magazine has been used for various private uses over the years, at one point having another structure built around it.
 When the larger structure was torn down, the Powder Magazine was re-discovered.
 In order to save it from demolition, it was declared a Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #249) in August 1982.
 For more than two decades, it has sat on a vacant, fenced-off lot two blocks south of the Drum Barracks.