Read my Past Tense column in the Dunwoody Crier newspaper titled Camp Gordon, Football and the Spanish Flu by following this link, Past Tense article. Here are some additional photographs from the time of World War I, Camp Gordon, Spanish flu and even some football.

On September 29, 1918, The Atlanta Constitution reported that 1,893 cases of Spanish Flu had been reported at Camp Gordon. 962 soldiers were sent to the camp hospital.