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Overview

Camp Drum served as the Northern Army's Southwest headquarters during the Civil War; it later became a Civil War museum.

Building History

The Officers' Barracks is the sole remaining building (of 19) on what was once the 60-acre US Army facility, Camp Drum. Buildings on the base were decommissioned c. 1871 and auctioned off a year or two later. The land was returned to two Union supporters, Phinneas Banning (1830-1885), a prominent landowner in Wilmington and the major developer of Los Angeles's first port, and Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811-1878), the second Mayor of Los Angeles, who also purchased some of the Army's deaccessioned Camp Drum buildings.