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{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Eaton's Fort|State=TN|Dates=1776|Mentions=1|Notes=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 [http://gaz.jrshelby.com/eatons-fort.htm], [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gtusa/usa/tn.htm], etc.}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Eaton's Fort|State=TN|Dates=1776|Mentions=1|Notes=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 [http://gaz.jrshelby.com/eatons-fort.htm], [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gtusa/usa/tn.htm], etc.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Forks Fort|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Forks Fort|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''. It was the departure point of Mackenzie's 1793 crossing of North America. In 1909 only "the foundations of the walls [were] left and the crumbling bricks of two old chimneys" ([http://bit.ly/ForksFort1909 Wade, p228]); by the late 1920s, a bit less ([http://bit.ly/ForksFort1920s Wade, p230])}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Athabasca|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Athabasca|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Bedford (2)|State=ND|Dates=1891-1892|Mentions=3|Notes={{Cullum|2252}} • {{Cullum|2454}} • {{Cullum|2758}}.}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Bedford (2)|State=ND|Dates=1891-1892|Mentions=3|Notes={{Cullum|2252}} • {{Cullum|2454}} • {{Cullum|2758}}.}} | ||
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{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Conger|State=NU|Dates=1781|Mentions=|Notes=(NU=Nunavut, Canada) [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/A_Short_History_of_the_United_States_Navy/24*.html Short History of the United States Navy, ch. 24], in connection of course with Arctic exploration. Wickedpedia has an article.}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Conger|State=NU|Dates=1781|Mentions=|Notes=(NU=Nunavut, Canada) [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/A_Short_History_of_the_United_States_Navy/24*.html Short History of the United States Navy, ch. 24], in connection of course with Arctic exploration. Wickedpedia has an article.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Des Prairies|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Des Prairies|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Gelaspy||State=IA|Dates=1805|Mentions=1|Notes=On my site: [http://bit.ly/FortGelaspyPike]. Probably a Frenchified spelling of Gillespie or Gillaspie. There is some doubt as to whether Pike actually saw this fort, see [http://bit.ly/1qYmBz3]}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Gelaspy||State=IA|Dates=1805|Mentions=1|Notes=On my site: [http://bit.ly/FortGelaspyPike]. Probably a Frenchified spelling of Gillespie or Gillaspie. There is some doubt as to whether Pike actually saw this fort, see [http://bit.ly/1qYmBz3]}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Good Hope (3)|State=NT|Dates= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Good Hope (3)|State=NT|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''. Near the mouth of the Hare Indian River, [http://mapcarta.com/24257358 see map]}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Graham (2)|State=NC|Dates=|Mentions=1|Notes=In {{Cullum|1994}} — occurring just before he was posted to another fort in North Carolina, so not likely to be a mistake for the fort in Texas. Poking around online for it, I couldn't find much — except a "[[Graham's Fort|GRAHAM's Fort]]" in North Carolina, which I don't think is it (Revolutionary War), but it's not on FW either, so I'll add it to the pot as well: see [http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?MarkerId=O-59 this page at NCMarkers.Com].}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Graham (2)|State=NC|Dates=|Mentions=1|Notes=In {{Cullum|1994}} — occurring just before he was posted to another fort in North Carolina, so not likely to be a mistake for the fort in Texas. Poking around online for it, I couldn't find much — except a "[[Graham's Fort|GRAHAM's Fort]]" in North Carolina, which I don't think is it (Revolutionary War), but it's not on FW either, so I'll add it to the pot as well: see [http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?MarkerId=O-59 this page at NCMarkers.Com].}} | ||
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{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Holt|State=KY|Dates=1862|Mentions=1|Notes=("organizing the defenses of the Mississippi River" in 1862) — but it's Cullum writing his own entry {{Cullum|709}}, so it's gotta be right.}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Holt|State=KY|Dates=1862|Mentions=1|Notes=("organizing the defenses of the Mississippi River" in 1862) — but it's Cullum writing his own entry {{Cullum|709}}, so it's gotta be right.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Horseshoe|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Horseshoe|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Howard (4)|State=NM|Dates=|Mentions=1|Notes=Cullum, {{Cullum|789}}. See also possibly Camp Howard (IT), below under Camps.}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Howard (4)|State=NM|Dates=|Mentions=1|Notes=Cullum, {{Cullum|789}}. See also possibly Camp Howard (IT), below under Camps.}} | ||
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{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Howard (5)|State=ID|Dates=1879|Mentions=1|Notes={{Cullum|2074}}, date 1879. [http://www.northamericanforts.com/West/id.html#howard North American Forts] calls it a Camp: actually has 3 of them all in Idaho.}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Howard (5)|State=ID|Dates=1879|Mentions=1|Notes={{Cullum|2074}}, date 1879. [http://www.northamericanforts.com/West/id.html#howard North American Forts] calls it a Camp: actually has 3 of them all in Idaho.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Jonquière|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Jonquière|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Kearny (6)|State=NM or AZ|Dates=1859|Mentions=1|Notes={{Cullum|917}}}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Kearny (6)|State=NM or AZ|Dates=1859|Mentions=1|Notes={{Cullum|917}}}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Lacorne|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Lacorne|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Lexington|State=MO|Dates=1861+|Mentions=1|Notes=a Federal fort captured by the Confederates in 1861 or maybe 1862, called an important victory. Appears on my site once so far, {{Cullum|2086}}, year 1866, characterized as "Ft. Lexington, Missouri River"}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Lexington|State=MO|Dates=1861+|Mentions=1|Notes=a Federal fort captured by the Confederates in 1861 or maybe 1862, called an important victory. Appears on my site once so far, {{Cullum|2086}}, year 1866, characterized as "Ft. Lexington, Missouri River"}} | ||
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{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort McIntosh (3)|State=PA|Dates=1778|Mentions=1|Notes=Thwaites annotates a passage of Chapter 9 of Cuming's Tour to the West, referring to Beaver, PA, as follows: | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort McIntosh (3)|State=PA|Dates=1778|Mentions=1|Notes=Thwaites annotates a passage of Chapter 9 of Cuming's Tour to the West, referring to Beaver, PA, as follows: | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Norman|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Norman|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Prince of Wales|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Prince of Wales|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Providence|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Providence|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Rae|State=NT|Dates= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Rae|State=NT|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behchok%C7%AB%CC%80 This Wikipedia article] includes good capsule information on the fort, putting its foundation (as Fort Rae) in 1852; [http://bit.ly/WADMAC4#p91 Wade, p91], mentions a bit of its earlier history.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Resolution|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Resolution|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Rocky Mountain|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Smith (7)|State=AB|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | |||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Smith (7)|State=AB|Dates= | |||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort St. Joseph (1)|State=LA|Dates=1700's|Mentions=2|Notes=There were two Fort St. Joseph near each other, this one at Pointe Coupée, and one elsewhere: see [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/_Texts/LHQ/1/4/Collot/Cruzat_article*.html#p314 LHQ Vol. I No. 4 p314].}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort St. Joseph (1)|State=LA|Dates=1700's|Mentions=2|Notes=There were two Fort St. Joseph near each other, this one at Pointe Coupée, and one elsewhere: see [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/_Texts/LHQ/1/4/Collot/Cruzat_article*.html#p314 LHQ Vol. I No. 4 p314].}} | ||
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{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Unalaska|State=?|Dates=1700s|Mentions=2|Notes=Two very incidental bare mentions in Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Unalaska|State=?|Dates=1700s|Mentions=2|Notes=Two very incidental bare mentions in Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Vauligny|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Vauligny|State=???|Dates=1700s|Mentions=1|Notes=Mentioned in passing in Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Vermilion|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Vermilion|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Waco|State=TX|Dates=1870|Mentions=1|Notes={{Cullum|1845}}the year is 1870}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Waco|State=TX|Dates=1870|Mentions=1|Notes={{Cullum|1845}}the year is 1870}} | ||
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{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Wade (2)|State=VA|Dates=1861-1865|Mentions=2|Notes=[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/4/26*.html#p475 Vol. 4, Ch. 26]], he is made to point to the nearby ramparts of Fort Wade in talking with someone after the war, somewhere near Manassas. During the war itself, Freeman has him pointing to it too:[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/2/24*.html#p349 Vol. 2, Ch. 24]].}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort Wade (2)|State=VA|Dates=1861-1865|Mentions=2|Notes=[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/4/26*.html#p475 Vol. 4, Ch. 26]], he is made to point to the nearby ramparts of Fort Wade in talking with someone after the war, somewhere near Manassas. During the war itself, Freeman has him pointing to it too:[[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/Robert_E_Lee/FREREL/2/24*.html#p349 Vol. 2, Ch. 24]].}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort York (3)|State=MB|Dates= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Fort York (3)|State=MB|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''. At the mouth of the Nelson River on Hudson Bay.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Lafleur's Fort|State= | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Lafleur's Fort|State=???|Dates=???|Mentions=1|Notes=Wade's ''Mackenzie of Canada''.}} | ||
{{FortsWPTList|Fort=Mission Santa Catalina|State=GA?|Dates=1670|Mentions=1|Notes=[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Florida/St_Johns/St_Augustine/_Texts/NPS149/2*.html NPS booklet on Castillo San Marcos]: "In 1670, a vessel bound for Charleston, mistakenly put in at Santa Catalina Mission, the Spanish post near the Savannah River…"}} | {{FortsWPTList|Fort=Mission Santa Catalina|State=GA?|Dates=1670|Mentions=1|Notes=[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Florida/St_Johns/St_Augustine/_Texts/NPS149/2*.html NPS booklet on Castillo San Marcos]: "In 1670, a vessel bound for Charleston, mistakenly put in at Santa Catalina Mission, the Spanish post near the Savannah River…"}} | ||
Revision as of 14:43, 18 December 2016
| Fort | State | Dates | Mentions | Notes
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| Deshler's Fort | PA | 1 | A fortified house rather than a fort strictly speaking, but referred to as such in many sources, including at least one on my own site. A solid account is given in Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, as transcribed on this USGenWeb page. | |
| Eaton's Fort | TN | 1776 | 1 | 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 [1], [2], etc. |
| Forks Fort | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. It was the departure point of Mackenzie's 1793 crossing of North America. In 1909 only "the foundations of the walls [were] left and the crumbling bricks of two old chimneys" (Wade, p228); by the late 1920s, a bit less (Wade, p230) |
| Fort Athabasca | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Bedford (2) | ND | 1891-1892 | 3 | (Cullum 2252) • (Cullum 2454) • (Cullum 2758). |
| Fort Bourbon (3) | NL? | 1794 | 1 | Notes=Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. This is not the same as any of the Fort Bourbon (2)'s, since still manned in 1794. |
| Fort Caillou | LA? | 1861 | 2 | Confederate (or Confederate-occupied), one of a group of forts evacuated by the Confederacy, mentioned by Kendall in Chapter 15 and Chapter 16. |
| Fort Caldwell | KS | 1885 | 1 | (Cullum 2535). Sparse references online, but including in printed books. |
| Fort Columbus (2) | KY or IL | 1 | 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" | |
| Fort Conger | NU | 1781 | (NU=Nunavut, Canada) Short History of the United States Navy, ch. 24, in connection of course with Arctic exploration. Wickedpedia has an article. | |
| Fort Des Prairies | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Gelaspy | IA | 1805 | 1 | On my site: [3]. Probably a Frenchified spelling of Gillespie or Gillaspie. There is some doubt as to whether Pike actually saw this fort, see [4] |
| Fort Good Hope (3) | NT | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. Near the mouth of the Hare Indian River, see map |
| Fort Graham (2) | NC | 1 | In (Cullum 1994) — occurring just before he was posted to another fort in North Carolina, so not likely to be a mistake for the fort in Texas. Poking around online for it, I couldn't find much — except a "GRAHAM's Fort" in North Carolina, which I don't think is it (Revolutionary War), but it's not on FW either, so I'll add it to the pot as well: see this page at NCMarkers.Com. | |
| Fort Harrison (6) | NB | 1896-1898 | 1 | (Cullum 3432) |
| Fort Hatteras | NC | 1861-1862 | 1 | (Cullum 902) |
| Fort Henry (7) | TN | 1793 | 1 | Not the same as Fort Henry (5); this one is mentioned by John Sevier in his diary in 1793, as follows (in toto): |
| Fort Holt | KY | 1862 | 1 | ("organizing the defenses of the Mississippi River" in 1862) — but it's Cullum writing his own entry (Cullum 709), so it's gotta be right. |
| Fort Horseshoe | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Howard (4) | NM | 1 | Cullum, (Cullum 789). See also possibly Camp Howard (IT), below under Camps. | |
| Fort Howard (5) | ID | 1879 | 1 | (Cullum 2074), date 1879. North American Forts calls it a Camp: actually has 3 of them all in Idaho. |
| Fort Jonquière | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Kearny (6) | NM or AZ | 1859 | 1 | (Cullum 917) |
| Fort Lacorne | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Lexington | MO | 1861+ | 1 | a Federal fort captured by the Confederates in 1861 or maybe 1862, called an important victory. Appears on my site once so far, (Cullum 2086), year 1866, characterized as "Ft. Lexington, Missouri River" |
| Fort Macpherson | NT | 1849- | 1 | Hudson's Bay Company post established in 1849. See its own website. |
| Fort Matilda | ON | 1813 | 1 | in (Cullum 79) |
| Fort McIntosh (3) | PA | 1778 | 1 | Thwaites annotates a passage of Chapter 9 of Cuming's Tour to the West, referring to Beaver, PA, as follows: |
| Fort Norman | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Prince of Wales | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Providence | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Rae | NT | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. This Wikipedia article includes good capsule information on the fort, putting its foundation (as Fort Rae) in 1852; Wade, p91, mentions a bit of its earlier history. |
| Fort Resolution | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Rocky Mountain | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Smith (7) | AB | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort St. Joseph (1) | LA | 1700's | 2 | There were two Fort St. Joseph near each other, this one at Pointe Coupée, and one elsewhere: see LHQ Vol. I No. 4 p314. |
| Fort St. Joseph (2) | LA | 1700's | 1 | There were two Fort St. Joseph near each other, this one; and the other at Pointe Coupée: see LHQ Vol. I No. 4 p314. |
| Fort Stephenson (2) | IA? | 1800s | 2 | early 19c. Mentioned in at least 2 onsite books on Iowa history. |
| Fort Unalaska | ? | 1700s | 2 | Two very incidental bare mentions in Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Vauligny | ??? | 1700s | 1 | Mentioned in passing in Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Vermilion | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Fort Waco | TX | 1870 | 1 | (Cullum 1845)the year is 1870 |
| Fort Wade (2) | VA | 1861-1865 | 2 | [Vol. 4, Ch. 26], he is made to point to the nearby ramparts of Fort Wade in talking with someone after the war, somewhere near Manassas. During the war itself, Freeman has him pointing to it too:[Vol. 2, Ch. 24]. |
| Fort York (3) | MB | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. At the mouth of the Nelson River on Hudson Bay. |
| Lafleur's Fort | ??? | ??? | 1 | Wade's Mackenzie of Canada. |
| Mission Santa Catalina | GA? | 1670 | 1 | NPS booklet on Castillo San Marcos: "In 1670, a vessel bound for Charleston, mistakenly put in at Santa Catalina Mission, the Spanish post near the Savannah River…" |
| Nashville Ordnance Depot | TN | 1865 | 1 | Temporary depot, according to this webpage out there, discontinued sometime after 1865. (Cullum 2008) was its commander June 30, 1865, to May 26, 1866. |
| Omaha Ordnance Depot | NB | 1872-1895 | 3 | in (Cullum 2035) • (Cullum 2372) • (Cullum 2942) |
| Queen's Fort (3) | RI | 1 | Not the one you have, but a ruin near Wickford, RI. The barest remnants, but it's still a fort, and of some historical interest: I even have a photograph of bits of it onsite, such as it is: George Ellis & John Morris, King Philip's War • Chapter 9 | |
| Ralston Fort | PA | 1 | also called BROWN'S FORT. A solid account is given in Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania, as transcribed on this USGenWeb page.
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