Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Apacheria Quartermaster's Storehouse Fort Grant Circa 1885 Fort Grant, now a prison, was originally a United States Army Cavalry Post. Because of unhealthy living conditions at Old Camp...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Apacheria This fort was a Civil War earthwork fortification on the east shore of Matagorda Island constructed to guard Cavallo Pass, the entry to Matagorda Bay. It was built in 1861 when it was...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria The following story is from the book, Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman, by J. Evetts Haley. With the Confederacy too busy to defend the frontier, the Legislature saw that more...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Apacheria Captain Valentine Dresher halted his Company B, 1st Infantry, California Volunteers, at Cooke's Spring, New Mexico, on October 2, 1863. Their march had been easterly from Fort West. The...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Southern Early American Forts Fort Crockett, named after David Crockett, was a United States military reservation on Galveston Island. It was built in 1897 for coast artillery training and harbor defense. Its...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria The above information is from the book, Mark of Heritage, by Muriel H. Wright, courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society. On August 1 the work of removing the Indians from Texas began. As...
Part of our in-depth series exploring Southern Early American Forts Fort Saint Louis de Carloretta was located more than 300 miles northwest of Natchitoches, Louisiana, near a Caddo Indian Village on the Texas side of the Red River in the southeast...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Apacheria The following is from the book, Indian Wars, Bill Yenne. Having finished the Navajo War, General James Carleton had drafted plans for a major spring offensive against the Apache...
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