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June 22

  • Camp WILLIAMS (VA), mentioned a single time on my site, in 1868.

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 17

  • Fort CHIPPAWA (that seems to be the correct spelling), on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. Wikipedia and other sites have stuff on it; on my own site, it's mentioned at least four times, all in connection with the War of 1812.

June 16

  • Fort MALDEN (Canada), important in the War of 1812; see the Wikipedia article among others.
  • 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 . . .

  • Fort COBB: Cullum has one instance each of a Fort Cobb in Texas and in Colorado.
  • 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.
  • Fort MITCHELL:
    • the big one is in AL, on the Chattahoochee River, with about 29 references in Cullum, where dates range from 1830 to 1837; it was founded, however, in the War of 1812 or possibly before.
    • 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

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 PICKERING: at or near Chickasaw Bluffs: longish article (with a Fort PIKE), Bedford's Tour, Appendix E. Note that the 1st "Fort ADAMS" mentioned in that article was the earlier name of that Fort Pickering (1); it's only the second "Fort Adams" mentioned that is your Fort Adams (3)
  • 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

Systematic check of Cullum

A systematic check of Cullum, starting with Cullum 1. Last one checked this way: Cullum 47, March 30.


Completed

  • Fort DES MOINES (IA). At least two of them, 1840s and on; many refs to them in Cullum and elsewhere. <<== three added
  • There is more than one Fort Des Moines:
  • Fort WOLCOTT (RI), mentioned on at least 17 pages of Cullum, 1811 thru the mid‑1830s.
  • 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
  • Fort Madison (3) (Iowa), 1809‑1813. I now have an entire chapter up on my site about this fort, in BITLY/MAHOFC0.
  • 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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