Camp Zachary Taylor

Not to be confused with Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park in Key West, Florida.
New York soldiers in a 1918 marksmanship competition at the Field Artillery Central Officers Training School, Camp Zachary Taylor

Camp Zachary Taylor was a military training camp in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened in 1917, to train soldiers for U.S. involvement in World War I, and was closed three years later. It was initially commanded by Guy Carleton and after the war its commanders included Julius Penn.[1] Its name (and some of its buildings) live on as the Camp Taylor neighborhood of Louisville. It is named for Louisville resident and United States President Zachary Taylor.

The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald trained at the camp as did actor Louis Wolheim.

  1. ^ Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy (1935). Sixty-Sixth Annual Report. Newburgh, NY: Moore Printing Company. p. 134. Archived from the original on 2019-02-10. Retrieved 2019-02-09.