Drum Barracks
Supply base, Wilmington (Los Angeles), California.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Supply base
- Where
- Wilmington (Los Angeles), California
- Years
- 1862-1865
- Today
- Museum
DRUM BARRACKS
Established in 1862 at Wilmington, Drum Barracks was the Union Army headquarters for Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, a garrison and supply base, and the terminus of the Army's camel pack trains until 1863. The post had 19 buildings on 60 acres.
Then
Established in 1862 at Wilmington on land donated by Phineas Banning and Benjamin Wilson, Drum Barracks was the Union Army headquarters for Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, a garrison and supply base, and the terminus of the Army's camel pack trains until 1863. The post had 19 buildings on 60 acres with another 37 acres near the waterfront, and construction cost eventually reached $1 million.
In 1873 the government returned the land to Banning and Wilson after auctioning off the buildings.
Now
Museum
The junior officers' quarters is the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum, at 1053 Cary Street, and the powder magazine stands on private property three blocks away. The site is a California Historical Landmark.
Lines owned by smaller railroads, BNSF and Union Pacific run through Wilmington (Los Angeles) today.