Camp Lander was a formerMassachusetts militia camp active during 1862 and located inWenham, Massachusetts. It was named for Brigadier General Frederick W. Lander, wounded at theBattle of Ball's Bluff, who died of disease almost three weeks later in March 1862. In September–December 1862, the5th,8th, and48th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments trained at the camp. The site is now occupied by Pingree Park, on land donated by Harriet Pingree in 1916.[1][2]
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