When the Soldiers Came to Town: Spartanburg's Camp Wadsworth, 1917-1919, and Camp Croft, 1941-1945

During World War I and World War II, more than 350,000 men on their way to battlefields abroad came to the sleepy southern town of Spartanburg, S.C. to learn to be soldiers at the training camps of Wadsworth and Croft. The story of how wartime preparation changed them, and how they in turn changed Spartanburg, is the focus of this illustrated history book from the Hub City Writers Project.