The camp consolidated
prisoners of war from the
Gettysburg Armory on
Seminary Ridge (100 POWs on September 16, 1944) and those from the
stockade on the
Emmitsburg Road (350 prisoners) at the former World War I
Camp Colt site. On January 22, 1945, the
U.S. Employment Service began using Gettysburg POWs for pulpwood cutting, and in June the camp opened with 500 German POWs (932 by July), (guards had numbered as high as 50.) The last commander was Captain James W Copley, and before the camp was opened, Captain Lawrence Thomas had been the commander of both Gettysburg facilities and the
Camp Michaux interrogation facility near
Pine Grove Furnace State Park. ==References==