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Systematic check of Cullum

A systematic check of Cullum, starting with Cullum 1. Last one checked: Cullum 125, July 8.

Queries

October 8

  • Camp MORTON (IN). At Indianapolis, at the beginning of the War between the States. Don't know how temporary, but at least 1861‑1863. Used as a mustering and rendezvous post.

October 6

  • FRANKFORD Arsenal (PA): One of the important ones; on my site, shows up at least 44 times. A fairly complete list of arsenals — apparently in 1841 — is given by Ganoe, chapter 6 (BITLY/GANUSA6#note8).
  • Fort MASSACHUSETTS (NM). Yup, there's one in New Mexico too. I've already prepared the slot as "Fort Massachusetts (5)" on the disambiguation page.

October 5

  • Fort BENNING (GA): Although not established until 1918/1920, this is an important one!
  • Fort INDEPENDENCE (ME): This looks like a mistake, but Ganoe is rather specific about it, saying it was garrisoned by the Fourth Artillery (in 1853) — so it doesn't look like the well-known one in MA?

October 2

  • Camp McKEON (probably Wisconsin Territory): May 28, 1840, mentioned by Ganoe (History of the United States Army) as the staging point for the campaign against the Winnebago Indians.
  • Camp CALOOSAHATCHEE (FL): may well be Fort Thompson (3) — but maybe not: it is called Camp C. by Colonel R. H. Wilson (in a history of the Eighth Infantry) speaking of events of 1841: he says it was destroyed by a "tornado" in September of that year.

September 28

  • Fort MIMS (AL): the battle for this fort, in the War of 1812, is considered one of the most important events in Alabama history. See the FortMims.Org website, also the Wickedpedia article.

September 13

  • Camp TALIAFERRO (TX): not too sure you want to do these, but it was an aviation training camp of some importance during World War I. Wickedpedia has an entry.

August 27

August 25

  • Camp Connor (ID): The one I was looking for, I found, hiding under "Fort Reno (2)". But in the process I found one on Wickedpedia (possibly misspelled for Conner? see the WP entry) was in Idaho, 1863; they cite Frazer.

August 24

  • Fort SEDGWICK (VA): Yup, there's one in Virginia in addition to the one in Colorado. It's somewhere near Ft. Steadman. It was the site of an action in the War between the States, Cullum 1379.

August 8

  • SCHOFIELD BARRACKS (HA): See the Wickedpedia article "Schofield Barracks".

August 6

  • Fort HARMAR (OH): important in the Revolutionary War; see the Wickedpedia article.

August 3

  • Fort BARRINGTON (GA): 18c British fort on the Altamaha River, only a marker left: at WayMarking, at GeorgiaInfo. The fort is best known for having been the place where Franklinia alatamaha was discovered.
  • GILLESPIE's Fort (TN), "below the mouth of Little river on Holston, about eight miles from the present Knoxville". Attacked by Cherokees and Creeks under the command of Kunoskeskie on September 21, 1788, 28 whites killed. More info in Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee.

July 27

  • Fort COVINGTON (MD): an early‑19c fort contiguous to Fort McHenry; see Fort Covington (at "Maryland in the War of 1812").

July 11

  • Fort SAN FERNANDO DE LAS BARRANCAS (TN): Spanish fort founded May 1795 at or near the site of today's Memphis. Also (but probably not correctly) S. F. DE BARANCOS. Quick sketch of its history, with map, at [1] (TN Encyclopedia); see also J. P. Young (1912) Standard History of Memphis, p44.

July 9

  • Fort CAMPBELL (SC): "[in 1861] Each channel [of the Cape Fear River] was guarded by strong works, the mouth by Fort Caswell and Fort Campbell, and New Inlet by Fort Fisher"
  • EATON'S FORT (TN). Not completely sure it was a fort, but at least it was something like one, and a battle was fought there in 1776, mentioned just once on my site, and in passing. See [2], [3], etc.
  • THICKETTY FORT (SC), mentioned 3 times on my site = Fort ANDERSON, but not the one you have. History.Com (long page of which the initial paragraph is:)
    • "On this day in 1780, Colonel Isaac Shelby and 600 Patriots take Fort Anderson, also known as Fort Thicketty, located 10 miles southeast of Cowpens, South Carolina, and held by a Loyalist garrison, without firing a shot. Shelby's action followed the more famous Waxhaws massacre by two months and preceded the Battle of King's Mountain by just over two months, causing it to receive comparatively little historical attention."

July 8

  • BELLONA Arsenal (VA). At least 18 mentions on my site, years ranging from 1827 to 1834. Freeman: "Bellona Arsenal was on the south side of James River, above Richmond."
  • Fort CASWELL (TN), also called Fort WATAUGA. Not the same as the one so far on FortWiki. It was in the Watauga Settlement and was attacked and defended during the Revolutionary War. See the article in Wickedpedia.
  • Camp RANDALL (WI): 1865, may have been a mustering-out facility, one instance on my site, in Cullum 1207.
  • Camp WOOD (KY): War between the States, one instance on my site, in Cullum 1833
  • Camp WOOD (TX): just before the War between the States, 2 on my site, in Cullum  789 and 1622.

July 7

  • Fort MOORE (GA). From Samuel Cole Williams's History of the Lost State of Franklin, not on FortWiki:
    • "In accordance with this general design it was determined to erect, far back into the wilderness, three forts for the protection of Charleston and its trade, and seduce the Southern Indians from their loyalty to France, which was always their favorite. One of these forts was to be Fort Moore, on the Savannah River, just below and opposite the present city of Augusta, named for the former governor of the Province of South Carolina."
  • Fort PRINCE GEORGE (SC). From Samuel Cole Williams's History of the Lost State of Franklin, not on FortWiki:
    • "In 1756 Fort Prince George was built on the land of the Catawbas, near Keowee, by Governor Glen of South Carolina." Also: "up the headwaters of the Savannah River, on the Cherokee path, on the main branch called Keowee River, almost immediately opposite the Indian town Keowee"
  • Similarly (also from Williams), all part of an inland chain of forts down along the mountains:
    • "Besides this fort for the protection of this immediate section, three other forts were built among the Allegheny Mountains — LONG ISLAND Fort, on the north bank of the Holston River, by Col. Bird of Virginia; Fort DOBBS, under the shadow of the Alleghenys, by North Carolina; and Fort CHISSEL, on New River in Virginia, by Virginians." ▸▸ CHISSEL is a misspelling, or an alternate spelling, of CHISWELL, under which name (Fort Chiswell) a community exists tracing its origin to a 1758 fort.

July 6

From Samuel Cole Williams's History of the Lost State of Franklin, 2 forts I can't find on FortWiki:

  • HOUSTON'S STATION (now TN):
    • "At this time [1788] Sevier was planning to go against the Chickamaugas in their strongholds. A fort, called Houston's Station, was now erected, sixteen miles south of Knoxville and six miles from the present site of the town of Maryville; and Major Thomas Stewart was placed in command."
  • WHITE'S FORT (now the site of Knoxville, TN); from Williams, History of the Lost State of Franklin, pp301‑302:
    • "[James White's] first residence was at a point four miles above the junction of French Broad and Holston rivers; but he remained there only one year. White and an old Carolina neighbor, James Conner, had begun to clear for a settlement on the present site of Knoxville, to which they removed in 1786. White's cabin stood on the west side of First creek, near its junction with the Holston; and, it is said, constituted one of the corners of White's Fort. This fort became a rendezvous for immigrants and rangers, since it was easy of access by water and by trails down the rivers. What's Fort settlement was destined to become the first capital of the State of Tennessee. It occupied a strategic position between the settlements on the upper reaches of the Holston and those on the Cumberland. The first hint of its future destiny was in the North Carolina Act, 1789, chapter I, which fixed "the house of James White, in Hawkins county" as the place where election returns from the districts of Washington and Mero should be canvassed to ascertain who was entitled to be commissioned representative in the Federal Congress from the trans-Alleghany region. James White was a representative in the Carolina Assembly in 1789, and doubtless aided in molding this legislation.
    • "Shortly after the organization of the Territory South of of the Ohio Governor Blount fixed upon White's Fort as the site of government, giving it the name of Knoxville, in honor of General Knox, then secretary of war. On November 3, 1780, Blount commissioned James White first major and a justice of the peace of Hawkins county; and later when Knox county was created White was given the highest military rank — lieutenant-colonel commandant of the county. His was the first name among those commissioned justices of the peace, and he was the presiding justice of Knox county."

June 27

June 26

  • Camp LEE (Richmond, VA) "located at the fair grounds on the present site of the Broad Street Terminal": Confederate recruiting camp thruout the War of Secession,mentioned twice on my site (1861, 1864) "For the later history of Camp Lee . . . see 26 S. H. S. P, 241‑45."

June 25

  • Cantonment CLINCH (FL). I have guys stationed there as early as 1822, as late as 1830, thus earlier than any of FortWiki's Fort Clinch entries. According to the Florida Forts page at NorthAmericanForts, other names are Camp Hope + Camp Brady, also Fort Clinch.
  • A different Fort McINTOSH: Thwaites annotates a passage of Chapter 9 of Cuming's Tour to the West, referring to Beaver, PA, as follows:
    • "The present town of Beaver was laid out in 1792, and eight years later made the county town for the newly-erected Beaver County. Fort McIntosh was a Revolutionary post erected (1778) by General Lachlin McIntosh, who had been chosen to succeed General Hand at Fort Pitt. It was the first military post in the Indian territory beyond the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. An important Indian treaty was held at this place in 1784; but four years later the fort was demolished, the erection of lower posts on the Ohio having rendered it superfluous."
  • Camp SABINE: three of them on my site. The main one (over 30 occurrences) was in LA, if very briefly, 1836‑38. Another one was in TX, 1856. A third is mentioned in connection with Greely's Polar Expedition, 1881‑1884, and is somewhere in the North American Arctic.
  • Fort ST. MARKS (or: Fort SAN MARCOS), FL: 1820s, several occurrences on my site.
  • Capt. Abraham Sands (BITLY/Cullum51) was "in garrison at Petite Coquille, La., 1821, — and at St. Marks, Fla., 1821‑22." Forts at Petite Coquille??

June 23

  • Fort COLUMBUS (IL?): Freeman writes: "The newspapers that Lee read on his arrival in Richmond contained the gloomy intelligence that Fort Columbus, the advanced Confederate position on the Mississippi, thirty miles south of the confluence of the Ohio, had been abandoned by (Lee's) old West Point friend, Leonidas Polk"

June 22

  • Camp WILLIAMS (VA), mentioned a single time on my site, in 1868.
  • Camp GREBLE (PA), early Civil War camp, mentioned 3 times in Cullum entries on my site.

June 21

  • Fort COVINGTON (MD), protecting the inner harbor of Baltimore in the siege of 1814: "To the west and rear of the fort [Fort McHenry], and guarding the ferry branch, were two other fortifications, Fort Covington and City Battery. . ."
  • Fort MONTGOMERY. Wikipedia lists 3 or possibly 4 (the ones you don't have are in KS). But in addition I'm looking for one somewhere near Mobile, my text, in connection with the end of the War of 1812 just before Jackson fought the battle of New Orleans, being:
    • "Fort St. Michael had already been evacuated by the British, but Barrancas still remained in their hands. Jackson spent the day resting his men and planned to move on Barrancas next morning, seize it and turn its guns on the British fleet which lay offshore. But in the middle of the night the British blew up the fort, and the garrison embarked on the ships which then sailed away. Fearful that the British meant to attack Mobile during his absence, Jackson set his army in motion toward Fort Montgomery to face them should they succeed in passing Fort Bowyer."

Online I find some info on this Fort Montgomery at this page.

  • SPANISH FORT (= OLD SPANISH FORT = Fort ST. JEAN = Fort ST. JOHN) (LA): Just NE of New Orleans, very close to the city. A fort that preceded Jackson, but which he garrisoned in 1814. This is an important fort appearing in many connections over a hundred years and more.

June 18

  • Fort MIMS and Fort STROTHER, both in AL, in connection with the War of 1812. Map and information in Chapter 18 of Beirne's The War of 1812, going up on my site these days.
  • Fort DEPOSIT (2), in AL, similarly.
  • Fort STODDARD (now AL, at the time in Mississippi Territory), rather close to the Gulf of Mexico, sometimes spelled STODDERT, similarly. It was a place of refuge from the Creek massacres in the War of 1812. It was also near this fort that Aaron Burr was arrested (his second arrest, the first was at Natchez). The place is mentioned at least 7 times on my site, by various authors in various connections.

June 16

  • Fort STEPHENSON (Ohio), not much of a fort, but the War of 1812 battle fought there is regularly called the Battle of Fort Stephenson, so I guess it's fair game.

June 13

  • Fort GEORGE (NY): Not one of the 13 you have . . . ! It's the first one on Wikipedia's page, the one in New York City. I ran across it named as such in a biography of Commodore Truxtun I'm putting on my site.

June 12

June 11

  • Fort LeBOEUF: important French fort of the 1750s. (Wikipedia article, several other traces of it online too.)

June 10

  • Fort SACKVILLE: "British outpost located in the frontier settlement of Vincennes. Begun in 1777 and named for a British government official, it was one of several forts built by the French, British or Americans from 1732 to 1813 in this important frontier settlement." ▸ and plenty more at the US Park Service page

▸▸ And in general I'm not finding VINCENNES anywhere onsite?? Post Vincennes included several important forts, I'm not finding any of them? (Fort Knox, Fort Vincennes, Fort Sackville, etc.: see the Wickedpedia article.

June 9

  • Fort LOUDON (I believe now in TN, but when built, in NC: near the confluence of the Tellico and Tennessee rivers). Also another one, which seems to be much less important, in VA. About the two, one of my pages has this to say:
    • There were two Fort Loudons: one near Winchester, Va.; and the other on the Little Tennessee at the junction of Tellico River, near where Loudon's Station on the railroad now is, a few miles to the west of Echota. This fort was constructed by the South Carolina forces about 1756 for the purpose of holding the Cherokees in check, and was garrisoned by 200 soldiers. In 1758, after a long siege, it was taken by the Indians; and the siege and the massacre of the garrison and of the whites who had taken refuge there form the basis of a very interesting and meritorious novel, the title being 'Old Fort Loudon.' The author closely follows the historical account given by Hewitt in his history of South Carolina, written in 1770. It is particularly commended to the readers of the Booklet [i.e., the North Carolina Booklet, a historical society journal]. It is in the Raney Library."

May 11

  • Fort BALDWIN (VA), mentioned just once onsite, by Freeman (biography of Lee, BITLY/4FREREL4) as being 1¼ miles from the Appomattox River, and close to Fort Gregg (which, while I'm at it, I don't think is Gregg 1, 2, or 3. . .).

May 5

  • Camp PAROLE (MD), a Union post during the War of Secession, and I bet there are others. On my site, p275 of Norris's history of Annapolis, BITLY/NORANN15, and offsite at BITLY/10hDaSc with dates and a further link to a MD roadside marker. It's connected to Camp RICHMOND also near Annapolis, which doesn't have a page on FortWiki (not Fort Richmond).

May 1

  • Fort RUSSELL (IL). In BITLY/MonksMoundTrappists I find: "At the outbreak of the War of 1812 the ancient cannon of Fort Chartres, of seventeenth-century make, were removed thence and planted at Fort Russell on the northern outskirts of Edwardsville."

April 26

  • Fort McLEAN (NM). Mentioned in connection with the Utah expedition of 1858‑60, in BITLY/AOG1736.

April 13

March 30

  • Fort JOHNSON (Illinois), a temporary fort erected by Zachary Taylor during the War of 1812, on the Illinois side of the Mississippi where the town of Warsaw is now located. It may or may not be the same as Fort EDWARDS
  • Fort STEPHENSON (in or near Iowa), early 19c. Mentioned in at least 2 onsite books on Iowa history.
  • LIBERTY Ordnance Depot (Mo.) in BITLY/Cullum44 and BITLY/Cullum896

March 9

Today's bunch in alphabetical order . . .

  • 2 HOWARDs not yet FortWikified: BITLY/Cullum1665 a "Camp Howard, I.T."; BITLY/Cullum789 a "Fort Howard, N. M."
  • Cullum has at least 3 references to a Cantonment MILLER in Minnesota ▸ so it's not Jeff Barracks. All three dates are 1855‑56.

March 8

  • In BITLY Cullum6284: "Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., student officer at Field Artillery School, Oct. 1, 1919, to July 20, 1920"

March 7

  • Fort STEPHENSON: War of 1812, someone named Proctor attacked it but failed — BITLY: Cullum17.

March 6

  • Fort CONGER. Mentioned on my site just once, in connection of course with Arctic exploration. Wickedpedia has an article. BITLY: USNavy24WPT.

March 4

  • Fort Barnwell in Florida: "was engaged against the Seminole Indians in Defense of Ft. Barnwell (Volusia), Apr. 12, 1836". [11],

On Deck

  • Fort Pillow 5 links in Cullum, 3 elsewhere, reloaded. (needs expansion)

In Progress

Completed

  • Fort MITCHELL:
    • a single reference to one in KY (near Covington), which seems to be correctly spelled Mitchel with just one L (named for Ormsby K. Mitchel), see BITLY/ZAhFMH
    • Fort Mitchell <== Disambiguation
    • Fort Mitchell (2) <== Kentucky
  • Fort COBB: Cullum has one instance each of a Fort Cobb in Texas and in Colorado.
    • Fort Cobb <== Oklahoma (none in Texas or Colorado perhaps one in North Carolina)
  • Fort CLARK: <<== Completed the ones you wanted - I think
    • in IL, don't think it's Fort Clark (2): "on the Illinois River near the outlet of Peoria Lake" (Illinois in 1818, by Solon J. Buck • Chapter 1 ▸ BITLY/ILBuck1 — Buck a very good authority), confirmed by BITLY/TransIllSHS1903Travels which calls it "Fort Clair, (Clark) on Lake Peoria".
    • in IA, on the Des Moines River, name changed to Fort Dodge, then this Fort Dodge was moved N to Fort Ridgely. . . ("The American Occupation of Iowa, 1833 to 1860 — IaJHP 17:83‑102 (1919)" ▸ BITLY/17IaJHP1Occupation)
    • in NC, Confederate, with a bunch of others, Hamilton, History of North Carolina (BITLY/3CBHHNC2):
      • ". . . defences were begun at Ocracoke Inlet, at Hatteras Inlet and on Roanoke Island. On Beacon Island at Ocracoke, Fort Morgan was erected and at Hatteras Forts Ellis and Clark. On Roanoke Island were Forts Huger, Blanchard, and Bartow, all on the western side of the island on Croatan Sound, and a battery at Ballast Point on the eastern side commanding the entrance to Manteo or Shallow Bay. Across Croatan Sound, on the mainland was Fort Forrest. At Cobb's Point on the Pasquotank River was another battery. None of these were real forts, the strongest, Fort Ellis, having only twelve smooth-bore 32‑pounders."

There is more than one Fort Clark:

There is more than one Fort Clarke:


  • Around Pensacola: Batteries LINCOLN, CAMERON, and TOTTEN; Battery SCOTT within firing range of Fort McRee. In the Bearss article, "Civil War Operations in and around Pensacola" (BITLY: BearssPensacola). <<== Don't normally document civil war batteries (there were a gazillion of them) but I may do these after I visit there this month
  • Yet another Fort ADAMS, this one apparently in IL, mentioned by Sidney Breese in Ch. 23 of his Early History of Illinois (BITLY/BREEHI23). <<== Can't find any reference to this one
  • I find a lone Fort LARNED, Neb. (rather than Kan.) in BITLY/Cullum1808. Mistake in Cullum? Date: 1860‑61. <<== don't find one in Nebraska
  • The remaining SUMNER items are now therefore:
    • A Camp Sumner, Kan. (that is not Fort Atkinson (2): in BITLY/Cullum687, Cullum1247 and Cullum1378 incidentally described as "Ft. Leavenworth (Camp Sumner), Kan., 1849". I'm assuming it's Fort Leavenworth, although FortWiki doesn't list "Camp Sumner" among Leavenworth's alternative names.
    • Camp Sumner (1) - A U.S. Army Camp at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas <== Not able to find this one yet
  • In [Cullum 1318] I find a Fort Ripley, Kan. <== Didn't find a Fort Ripley in Kansas
    • OK, this is prolly a mistake in Cullum. Still wondering exactly how to deal with it.
  • I also find a Camp Jackson in Gayarré's History of Louisiana, [(V.11)], in that State during the War of 1812, in connection with Gen. Jackson himself. <== likely a temporary camp I couldn't find a reference
    • Wow, finally stumped you on one!
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