The Lower Camp was home to a variety of civilian support personnel needed by the army. These transient laborers worked the smokehouses preparing rations, in the fields with livestock and crops, inside the hospitals handling medicine, and any number of other jobs needed by the Army. Some were life-long camp-followers, others toiled in one trade or another, or created and sold goods and services. Many were the wives and families of the soldiers in Forbes expedition. The army paved the way and established their posts, and these civilians soon followed creating communities that became Pennsylvania towns.
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