Camp Shelby

Camp Shelby was established on July 18, 1917, as a training camp for the 38th Division of the National Guard. Following activation for service in both World War I and World War II, Kentucky Guard units serving as part of the 38th Infantry Division were sent there for training in preparation for war, including the 75th Brigade, 149th Infantry Regiment, 63rd Field Artillery Brigade, and 1st and 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery. The camp was named in honor of Isaac Shelby, Kentucky's first governor, a Virginia militia officer and distinguished military leader during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, who personally commanded troops at the Battle of the Thames in 1813 while governor of Kentucky.

Mississippi · United States