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...ater as Inspector General of the U.S. Army. Died 18 Sep 1862 at the Battle of Antietam during the [[U.S. Civil War]]. [[Image:Joseph K Mansfield.jpg|thumb|left|200px|General Joseph. K.F. Mansfield]] ...

* [[:Category:Civil War Defenses of Richmond and Petersburg|Richmond and Petersburg, VA]] * [[:Category:Civil War Defenses of Vicksburg|Vicksburg, MS]] ...

...unds received at the battle of Antietam. Fort abandoned in 1865 at the end of the war. |width="50%"|[[Image:.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Fort Mansfield (1) (2)]] ...

...1900 and transferred to the Coast Artillery for use 18 Feb 1901 at a cost of $ $75,000.00. Deactivated in 1917. |width="50%"|[[Image:Wooster 1 Jan2003.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Fort Mansfield (1), Battery Wooster Emplacement #1]] ...

...ar]] (1861-1865) and died 18 Sep 1862, of wounds received at the [[Battle of Antietam]], the day previous. Post offered for sale in 1926 and sold in 192 ...th="50%"|[[Image:Fort Mansfield 1902 100 Man Bks.jpg|350px|thumb|left|Fort Mansfield, 1902 100 Man Barracks]] ...

...Named for Brigadier General [[Joseph Lane]] the first territorial governor of Oregon. Abandoned 17 Sep 1856. |width="50%"|[[Image:Fort Lane Plan.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Fort Lane Plan, Mansfield, 1854]] ...

...ts also known as [[Star Fort (2)|Star Fort]], [[Fort Union Depot]], [[Post of Fort Union]] and [[Fort Union Arsenal]]. |colspan="2"|[[File:Fort Union Ruins 212052pu.jpg|795px|thumb|center|Ruins of the Fort Union Depot Officer's Quarters circa 2005.]] ...

...thern emigrant route to California. Moved in March 1851 to the former site of [[Camp Calhoun]] and named [[Camp Yuma]]. Renamed Fort Yuma in 1852. Perman ...ed its temporary abandonment in 1851, it was re-garrisoned in 1852 after a battle with the Yuma Indians. ...

...s S. McIntosh]]<!-- not USMA -->, killed three years earlier in the battle of Molino Del Rey. ...}} in 1856 confirmed McIntosh's strategic value, and the temporary removal of the garrison three years later depressed the local economy. ...

.... Senator. He graduated 6th of 42 in the [[:Category:West Point 1840|Class of 1840]] and he was appointed to the [[3rd U.S. Artillery]]. He received a br William married Eleanor Boyle Ewing, the daughter of his foster father Thomas Ewing, 1 May 1850 at Blair House, Washington, D.C. ...

...nds, became known as Camp Parapet. Abandoned as a fortification at the end of the war in 1865. ...apet nine feet high fronted by a 30-foot-wide moat six feet deep. The line of breastworks had not been completed when Commodore Farragut's Union fleet br ...

|width="50%"|[[Image:FortBrownFortPolkMap.gif|thumb|350px|right|Map of route between Fort Polk & Fort Brown]] ...Matamoros and began construction of a fort. Seeing the U.S. soldiers, many of the 20,000 Matamoros residents fled, leaving behind about 4,000 civilians a ...