Close up Field View Formation at Fort Benjamin Harrison, 1906

Fort Benjamin Harrison was established as a training center for the Indiana National Guard in June of 1904 in Lawrence Township, Marion County. In August 1906 some 3,000 Indiana National Guardsmen poured into the camp to study army tactics and maneuvers under the direction of the regular army. The men lived outside sleeping in tents and eating in the field. During the mock battles 200,000 rounds of blank ammunition were fired. This view shows the field with the tents set up and officers and soldiers in formation on the field accompanied by a military band.The original nitrate negative was copied with funds provided by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in 1990. This digital image was created from that copy. The copy prints and negatives are stored in Microfiche Number order. Interpositives are stored in PAN number order