Editing Fort Bliss (section)

====Camp Concordia (1868–1876)====
After May 1867 [[Rio Grande]] flooding seriously damaged the Magoffinsville post, Fort Bliss was moved to a site called 'Camp Concordia' in March 1868.<ref name=Metz/>{{rp|35}} Camp Concordia's location was immediately south of what is now [[Interstate 10]], across from Concordia Cemetery in El Paso. The [[Rio Grande]] was about a mile south of the camp at that time. Water was hauled daily by mule team to the camp. On 11 March 1869 the old name of Fort Bliss was resumed.<ref name=Metz/>{{rp|36}}

Water, heating, and sanitation facilities were at a minimum in the [[adobe]] buildings of the fort. Records reveal that troops suffered severely from [[dysentery]] and [[malaria]] and that supplies arrived irregularly over the [[Santa Fe Trail]] by [[wagon train]]. In January 1877, the Concordia post was abandoned.<ref name=Metz/>{{rp|36}} After the troops left, El Paso was without a garrison for more than a year. By that time, El Paso and its environs on the north side of the river had swelled to a population of almost 800.