There is a reference to Camp Kirkpatrick on page 30 of "A Soldier's Story of his Regiment (61st Georgia) and Incidentally of the Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brigade", by G. W. Nichols, published in 1898. It refers to the 38th Georgia Regiment, and reads "This regiment was formed in the summer of 1861. It consisted of thirteen full companies, and was stationed at Camp Kirkpatrick, two miles west of Decatur, Ga., and four miles east of Atlanta, on the Georgia railroad."