Camp Ellsworth is a former American Civil War training camp that existed in 1862 in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was located near Fresh Pond, at the abandoned Reed and Bartlett Icehouse. It was first occupied by the 1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on June 1, 1861.
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- "Massachusetts". American Forts Network. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- "A Brief Chronology of Fresh Pond". Friends of Fresh Pond. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- Bowen, James Lorenzo. Massachusetts in the War, 1861-1865. C.W. Bryan & Co., 1888. p. 100
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