Camp Lima, commanded by Col. Isaiah Pillars, is shown in the autumn of 1862. The camp, on the east side of the Ottawa River roughly where Simmons Field stands today, opened in the summer of 1862 and was closed by November of that year as its functions were shifted elsewhere. In August 1862, according to the Lima Weekly Gazette, more than 1,600 men were at the camp. Both George Davison and James Doud Boyd began their service at the camp.