Editing Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia (section)

==History==
The [[United States Army]] established a cavalry post at the site of Hargrave, Georgia, an unincorporated town situated next to the [[Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park|Chickamauga National Battlefield]]. The existing settlement was named for a [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] soldier, William Hamilton Hargrave, who along with his wife Amelia Cecilia Strange-Hargrave owned most of the land in the area. The couple was well known in the 19th century to travellers heading to Ross's Landing on the [[Tennessee River]] from [[LaFayette, Georgia]]. William Hargrave and other landowners in the area were forced to sell their property to the Army{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}} to be used as a base for the [[6th Cavalry Regiment|6th Cavalry]]. The Chickamauga Post established in 1902 by the U.S. Army was later named [[Fort Oglethorpe (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia)|Fort Oglethorpe]] after [[James Oglethorpe]], the founder of the [[Province of Georgia|Colony of Georgia]]. During and after [[World War I]], the fort served between 1917 and 1920 as an [[Fort Oglethorpe (prisoner-of-war camp)|detention camp]] for [[Internment of German Americans|civilian internees]] and [[prisoners of war]]. During [[World War II]], the area served as a war-time induction and processing center, and again housed prisoners of war.<ref>Copeland, Susan, [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-592 "Foreign Prisoners of War"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117192817/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/foreign-prisoners-war |date=2018-11-17 }}, ''The New Georgia Encyclopedia''. Retrieved March 28, 2011</ref> Fort Oglethorpe was a major training center for the [[Women's Army Corps]] during World War II. The post land was declared surplus in 1947 and returned to civilian hands, forming the nucleus for a town that was incorporated in 1949.<ref>Cooksey, Elizabeth B., [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2308&hl=y "Catoosa County"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021122818/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2308&hl=y |date=October 21, 2012 }}, ''The New Georgia Encyclopedia''. Retrieved August 29, 2011</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IP4vAAAAIBAJ&pg=4163%2C288112 | title=Catoosa County | work=Calhoun Times | date=September 1, 2004 | access-date=24 April 2015 | pages=31}}</ref>