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Major-General John A. Logan of Illinois, who had made himself popular with the military by resigning his post in Congress in 1862 and joining the army. C. W. Brown of Canyon City has written the compiler confirming the location at the Kent ranch and says there were several log houses, the remains of some of them still in evidence in January, 1944. Formerly this was the J. J. Cozart ranch. An old box stove from Camp Logan is still in use at the Prairie City Grange Hall. Camp MAURY, Crook County. Camp Maury was about 30 miles airline southeast of Prineville, on the south side of Crooked River Valley near the base of Maury Mountains. It was named for Colonel R. F. Maury, who took a prominent part in the Snake War of 1864, and was at the time in command of the First Oregon Volunteer Cavalry. The camp was in the southeast quarter of section 20, township 17 south, range 21 east, on the southeast side of Maury Creek and just west of Rimrock Creek. It had previously been occupied by a command under Major Enoch Steen, and the site had been selected for a supply depot. A company of the Oregon Cavalry under command of Captain John M. Drake made camp at the place in the evening of May 18, 1864, and Drake, in his journal, says he named it for Colonel Maury. It was on May 18 that Lieutenant Stephen Watson and two men were killed by Indians. They were buried by the side of a small knoll south of the camp and at the edge of the timber. The bodies were later moved to Camp Watson, a more important establishment to the northeast. The account given by Bancroft in History of Oregon, volume II, page 498, is wrong in some particulars, Camp Maury was occupied until July 21, 1864, when the depot was moved five miles west to a place called Camp Gibbs. This was done to get better forage. In January, 1943, Mrs. Florence Knox of Post wrote about Camp Maury and said that a number of stone walls were still standing, three of four feet high, apparently built to protect sleeping soldiers. The site of the camp is on the J. T. Stewart homestead. Camp McKINLEY, Multnomah County. The Spanish-American War broke out April 20-22, 1898, and no time was lost in mobilizing the Oregon National Guard. A camp was officially established April 29, 1898, on the racetrack grounds at Irvington Park, named Camp McKinley in honor of the President William McKinley and it was at this camp that the Second Oregon Infantry was mustered into the service of the United States. Camp McKinley was just east of what is now Northeast Seventh Avenue, between Northeast Brazee and Northeast Fremont streets. The locality no longer shows any traces of camp or racetrack. Between May 11 and May 16, 1898, the Second Oregon was moved to the Presidio of San Francisco, from which post it embarked for Manila on May 25, to be away from the United States for more than a year. Brigadier General Raymond F. Olson of the Oregon Military Department, on October 8, 1947, sent the compiler a copy of part of General Orders No. 2, dated April 29, 1898, establishing Camp McKinley, but added that no orders of disestablishment could be found and it was assumed that the camp officially ceased its life on May 19, 1898, when the last of the state and federal property was removed. The compiler recalls visiting the camp several times, and has no recollection of anything more than the most temporary sort of facilities.

CAMP MERIWETHER, Tillamook County. Camp Meriwether is the summer camp of the Boy Scouts, Portland area. It is on the ocean front