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A Long Walk
W. H. Dodson was one of these. Hoping to get married, he had to produce a statement from his prospective employer - a farmer - before he could he released. Young Dodson was eager to leave on the weekends before his marriage. Stationed farther up the mountain from the Beech Spring location. Dodson walked out each weekend to his place at Five Forks.
Life At Camp #27
Benton remembers that most of the men could get aw ay on the weekends if they had some sort of transportation. A skeleton crew remained to fight fires if necessary, he said. In other respects, the camps resembled the Army that helped administer them. There were permanent and semi-permanent structures such as a mess tent and some of the equipment sheds. With both wood and labor cheap, it was not much of an undertaking to erect a simple frame and block structure. Mixed in with these more permanent buildings were the traditional long Army barracks tents for sleeping.
The men ate breakfast and dinner at the camp and canned a lunch into the woods. The men at Beech Spring always returned at night, although men at some other camps had work crews that might camp out for a couple-of days. In the winter, cooks packed lug thermos containers so that the men might have a hot meal at lunch time. “The food was pretty good," said Benton. “Of course it was, you know . Army food." Benton, as well as Maury Brown and Jim Smith, were among the local men who supervised the corpsmen. Some other directors of the local camps, especially in logistics, w ere military men trained in feeding, housing and moving bodies.
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