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Terry,

I've been looking off and on (without much luck) for information on Camp Trenton which was supposedly a little north of Monroe on the West Monroe side of the Ouachita. I would suspect that often it is generally referred to in old letters and diaries as just Monroe. I believe it was commanded by Samuel Douglas McHenry who would later become governor of Louisiana. I have seen references that say it, at times, had large numbers of recruits in training, whether conscripts or volunteers I don't know.

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