Camp Bragg is born
The man known as the “father of Fort Bragg” said he didn’t set out with a particular destination in mind when he started looking for a place to locate a new field artillery training camp.Col. Edward P. King told a Fort Bragg historian years after he recommended the site for what is now the nation’s largest military installation that he had never so much as heard of Fayetteville when he stopped in the town in June 1918.But King — who traveled south […]
