Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

The last entry dealt with a mother and father visiting their son George who stationed at the Medical Center Barracks at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois.  They sent a postcard to their daughters at home in Elmira, New York, dated July 4, 1943.  This postcard finally arrived in 2012.  Talk about your snail mail!!!

I'd never heard of a Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois, even though I live just an hour away from there.  Obviously, it is no longer there.  So, good old Wikipedia to the rescue.

It was named after U.S. Grant (U.S.-20 which goes through Rockford is named the Grant Highway as it also goes through Galena, Illinois, where he was living before the Civil War).  It was located on the western outskirts of Rockford at at one point consisted of over 18,000 acres and was in operation from 1917 until the late 1940s.

During World War I, it was an infantry training camp, home of the 86th Infantry Division (the Black Hawk Division).

Wonder What George Leisenring Was Doing There in the Next War?  --GreGen