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Systematic check of Cullum

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

"TBF"

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Queries

Important Forts

  • SPANISH FORT (LA) = OLD SPANISH FORT = Fort ST. JEAN = Fort ST. JOHN: 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. <== Done

Groups of forts

  • Samuel Cole Williams's History of the Lost State of Franklin, the following are 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.


Other Forts (and Arsenals)

  • 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 (2).
  • Fort BLOUNT (TN); from an appendix to John Sevier's diary:
    • "On May 3, 1797, with Major George Colbert, a Chickasaw half breed, as guide, the princes (the 3 sons of Philippe Egalité) set out for Nashville. At the junction of the Holston and the Tennessee they were entertained by Judge Campbell. At Southwest Point (now Kingston) they visited the proposed site of a fort and studied the remains of a prehistoric breastwork between the Clinch and Tennessee Rivers. They met a squad of soldiers under General Higgins and were urged to travel under protection, but declined. They crossed the Cumberland Mountains into a country teeming with game. They had to swim their horses across Obey River. On May 8 they reached Cumberland River, lined by swamp and cane jungles, near Fort Blount, then about to be rebuilt. They had to eat smoked bear's grease and Indian corn."
  • 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.
  • 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"
  • Fort CONGER. Mentioned on my site just once, in connection of course with Arctic exploration. Wickedpedia has an article. BITLY: USNavy24WPT.
  • Fort COVINGTON (NY). 6 times in Cullum: 5 times in 1838‑39 in connection with the Canadian border disturbances; once in 1819.
  • 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. . ." See also Fort Covington (at "Maryland in the War of 1812").
  • Fort DEPOSIT (AL), in connection with the War of 1812. Map and information in Chapter 18 of Beirne's The War of 1812, on my site.
  • 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 [1], [2], etc.
  • Fort GEORGE (NY): Incredibly, not one of the 13 you have . . . ! It's the first one on Wikipedia's page, the one in New York City. In the biography of Commodore Truxtun on my site.
  • 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.
  • Fort GRAHAM (NC). A single instance of it over my entire site so far, 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 GRANBY (SC). Mentioned once onsite, captured by Lighthorse Harry Lee in 1781.
  • Fort HARMAR (OH): important in the Revolutionary War; see the Wickedpedia article.
  • Fort HASKELL (VA). Mentioned just once onsite, by Freeman in his account of Lee's retreat to Appomattox, Vol. 4, Ch. 2. It's somewhere near Fort Stedman.
  • Fort HENRY (TN) Not the same as Fort Henry (5); this one is mentioned by John Sevier in his diary in 1793, as follows (in toto):
    • "Camp Henry, Fort 24 October 1793."
  • HOUSTON'S STATION (TN). From Samuel Cole Williams's History of the Lost State of Franklin:
    • "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."
  • JEFFERSONVILLE Depot (IN). A Quartermaster's Depot rather than an Ordnance Depot. A number of times in Cullum, usually just "Jeffersonville, Ind." but sometimes explicitly "Jeffersonville Depot", as in (Cullum 1992). (Cullum 1424) has "Quartermaster's Depot at Jeffersonville, Ky.": it's just across the river from Kentucky.
  • Fort JOHNSON (IL), 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 KODIAK (AK). Mentioned in Cullum at least twice in the 1860s, one of those times as "Headquarters, District of Kenai".
  • Fort LOUDON (I believe now in TN, but when built, in NC: near the confluence of the Tellico and Tennessee rivers). Also another one, Fort LOUDON (VA), 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."
  • Fort MAHONE (VA). seems to have been a Confederate fort near Petersburg. Sometimes called "Fort Damnation". Figures prominently, Apr. 2, 1865, in the last sorry retreat of Lee toward Appomattox. Mentioned twice on my site.
  • Fort McINTOSH (PA): 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."
  • Fort McCLELLAN (AL). In Anniston, AL. Again, not a "fort" in the fortifications sense, but it's still an active Army post, and it's showing up in the later entries in Cullum, at first related to the Spanish-American War Camp Shipp. ▸ Yours truly was stationed here for about 5 months.
  • Fort McLANE (NM). 5 times in Cullum, all 1861, so very likely Civil War temporary.
  • Fort McLEAN (NM). Mentioned in connection with the Utah expedition of 1858‑60, in BITLY/AOG1736; found in many places online.
  • 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.

  • 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 MORTON (VA). Civil War fort, part of the Battle of Petersburg site, several sites online cover the action there, and the National Park Service mentions it under Petersburg. One instance so far in Cullum, (Cullum 2010).
  • Fort ORANGE (NY) — British colonial fort; historically important as the kernel of Albany, N. Y.
  • Fort PLAIN (NY). Hard to tell whether there still are employs of the fort now, but there was one there, and even it is said to have been the headquarters of Gen. Rensselaer; see Wickedpedia article (which, however, doesn't smell trustworthy), and the Village of Fort Plain's website.
  • 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"
  • Fort RICHARDSON (VA) Very likely temporary; War between the States, with instances so far in Cullum: (Cullum 1600), where it is put "near Washington" and called a place of practical instruction which made the subject's regiment "the admiration of the Army"; and (Cullum 1986), who was in garrison there as a young lieutenant just after the war, in 1865.
  • Fort RICHMOND (ME) An early‑18c British fort somewhere near Norridgewock, mentioned twice on my site in connection with the British expulsion of a French mission there in 1724.
  • 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."
  • 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 [3] (TN Encyclopedia); see also J. P. Young (1912) Standard History of Memphis, p44.
  • Fort SAYBROOK (NY) and Fort GOOD HOPE (NY). In November 1635, or very shortly thereafter, according to Fiske, The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, Chapter 5, p133 f. (and see Wickedpedia article "Saybrook Colony":
    • "Winthrop built a fort at Saybrook, by the hands of Lyon Gardiner, an accomplished engineer, who had formerly served in Holland under the Prince of Orange. The narratives of the time abound in such instances, which show the closeness and frequency of the intercourse between the two nations. Gardiner remained in command of Fort Saybrook, which practically cut off Fort Good Hope and isolated it from New Amsterdam, for overland communication through the primeval forest was full of difficulty and danger.
  • Fort SEDGWICK (VA): Yup, there's one in Virginia in addition to the one in Colorado. It's somewhere near Ft. Stedman. It was the site of an action in the War between the States, Cullum 1379.
  • Fort STANSBURY (FL). 22 times in Cullum, always in connection with the Seminole War, always 1842 or 1843.
  • Fort STEVENS (NY):
    • Cullum 1: "Swift, early in June [1814], in conjunction with the Committee of Safety of the city of New York, made a reconnoissance of the approaches to its harbor, and decided upon the necessity for lines of works to cover New York and Brooklyn from any descent upon our shores from the British squadron then cruising off the coast. The Manhattan line was begun July 15, 1814, at Hallett's Point (since so famous from General Newton's great blasting operations), by the construction of a work, forming the right of the line, named Fort Stevens, after the Revolutionary patriot, General Stevens, a prominent officer of artillery at Saratoga in 1777."
  • Fort STODDARD (AL). At the time in Mississippi Territory, rather close to the Gulf of Mexico, sometimes spelled STODDERT, in connection with the War of 1812. Map and information in Chapter 18 of Beirne's The War of 1812, on my site. 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.
  • Fort STROTHER (AL), in connection with the War of 1812. Map and information in Chapter 18 of Beirne's The War of 1812, on my site.
  • 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."
  • Fort WADE (VA). In Freeman's biography of Robert E. Lee, 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.
  • WHITE'S FORT (TN) (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."
  • Fort WILKINSON (GA). "near Milledgeville"; in existence by May 24, 1802, when it was the scene of a conference with the Creek Indians. Cullum 2 was posted there in 1805.
  • Fort WILKINSONVILLE (KY or IL). At the mouth of the Ohio River. Bedford stayed there in 1807, recording it in his diary on Feb. 3, in some detail, including the historically interesting point that it "is the place where the troops then stationed, first heard and received the extravagant, arrogant, and fantastical orders for cropping their hair." He says that it had been erected 6 or 7 years before, and that it was already abandoned and ruined, occupied only by a few Cherokee Indians. Bedford doesn't say which bank of the Ohio it's on, but surely someone else must.

Groups of Camps

  • Temporary CONFEDERATE camps in New Orleans, 1861: "Towards the close of April a camp was established at Metairie Ridge. It was first known as Camp Metairie, but subsequently this name was changed to Camp Walker. It accommodated about 4,000 men. Later, it proved unhealthful, and was ultimately abandoned. Another camp was opened in what is now called Audubon Park. This was named Camp Lewis, in honor of the gallant old soldier, John L. Lewis." (Kendall's History of New Orleans, Vol. I, p240)
  • SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR camps, per Ganoe, pp375‑376, note: "During the war, camps were established for military purposes at Tampa, Fla.; Mobile, Ala.; Camp George H. Thomas, Ga.; Camp Alger, Va.; Camp Poland, Knoxville, Tenn.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Miami, Fla.; Fernandina, Fla.; Camp Wikoff, N. Y.; Camp Hamilton, near Lexington, Ky.; Camp George G. Meade, Pa.; Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Ala.; and Camp Shipp, Anniston, Ala." I boldfaced Camp Thomas because it's by far and away the one most often mentioned, the main staging ground for the Spanish-American War.

Camps

Somewhat more important

  • 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.
  • Camp DAVIS or JEFFERSON DAVIS (MS). At Pascagoula, Miss. Temporary (?) camp in Mexican War, mentioned once so far onsite, in Leyden's Historical Sketch of the Fourth Infantry. Might be the ancestor of the Pascagoula Military Reservation? (More than 75 mentions in Cullum of being garrisoned at East Pascagoula, although not once with the name of a fort, possibly because Cullum wrote after the War between the States, and might have been loath to refer to the camp by its name honoring Jefferson Davis.)


Others

  • Camp BUTLER (IL). Civil War training camp (Cullum 1929) and prison camp for Confederates in BITLY/CampDouglasChicago; in both, stated to be "near Springfield, Ill."
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Camp DENNISON (OH) — sometimes spelled Camp Denison, but I think that's wrong — several times on my site so far, always in connection with the War between the States.
  • Camp DONIPHAN (OK): temporary rendezvous/training camp for World War I, adjacent and very closely related to Fort Sill; turns up once so far in (Cullum 3746). Notable because President Truman served there. See Wackypedia article, which seems to be pretty decent, actually.
  • Camp GEORGE CROOK (NB?). Probably minor, maybe temporary: Mentioned in Ganoe, "field maneuvers of the Twenty-first Infantry at Camp George Crook near Fort Robinson, Nebraska" (1889)
  • Camp GREBLE (PA), early Civil War camp (Union), mentioned 3 times in Cullum entries on my site.
  • Camp LEE (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."
  • Camp LOCKETT (CA) "Located at Campo, San Diego County, in the Milquatay Valley, Camp Lockett was a World War II Mexican border cavalry post established in 1941." Named for (Cullum 2798).
  • Camp LOGAN (TX). A World War I training camp mentioned at least twice on my site; Wikipedia has a pretty good article with interesting information, [5].
  • 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 MEADE (PA). Twice so far in Cullum: at Harrisburg, PA so not the same as Camp Meade (1). Seems to have been a rendezvous camp in the Spanish-American War.
  • Cantonment MILLER (MN) Cullum has at least 3 references to it. In MN so it's not Jeff Barracks. All three dates are 1855‑56.
  • Camp MILLS (NY) (1919‑1938); on Long Island. Wikipedia has a fair article on it, Camp Mills. Twice so far on my site, both times in Cullum.
  • Camp PERRY (OH). Ganoe p436, speaking of the year 1909 and the training of National Guard to uniform national standards: "In rifle practice 43 militia teams attended the national match at Camp Perry, Ohio."
  • Camp RADZIMINSKI (TX). 11 times in Cullum, always 1858/59 and in connection with Camp Cooper and fighting Comanches.
  • Camp SHERIDAN (AL). A World War I camp, mentioned at least 3 times in Cullum (those entries not yet onsite), 1918.
  • 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.

Barracks

  • JACKSON Barracks (TN). at least once so far in Cullum, [Cullum 2605], date is 1885‑86. Some evidence online that there is or was such a place: sports team by that name plays in Tennessee….

Completed

  • Fort CLARK (7):
    • in NC, Confederate, with a bunch of others, Hamilton, History of North Carolina):
      • ". . . 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."
  • 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". <<== Don't normally document civil war batteries (there were a gazillion of them) but I may do these after I visit there this month

Unresolved for now

  • Yet another Fort ADAMS, this one apparently in IL, mentioned by Sidney Breese in Ch. 23 of his Early History of Illinois. <<== Can't find any reference to this one. ▸ Sidney Breese was a contemporary and a long-time resident and political figure in Illinois, so he may very well be right, so I'm leaving this one for now as unresolved.
  • 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 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? , <== Not found in ME
  • JACKSON Barracks (TN). Appears once in Cullum 2605, date 1885‑86. <== Not found in TN.
    • I ran a thorough check of all the West Point material I have on hard disk, and found 135 mentions of Jackson Barracks; 134 in LA, and just this one in "TN". Must be a mistake in Cullum — but the error is such a strange one (how would anyone come to write "Ten." for "La."?) that it may be a different mistake. One idea I had ▸ Johnson Barracks? since Andrew Johnson was a Tennessean and military governor of Tennessee for a while. So I'm leaving this up, although in the "Completed" section.
  • 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
  • I find a lone Fort LARNED, Neb. (rather than Kan.) in 1808. Mistake in Cullum? Date: 1860‑61. <<== don't find one in Nebraska
  • 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. <== Not found in NM
  • The remaining SUMNER items are now therefore:
    • A Camp Sumner, Kan. (that is not Fort Atkinson (2): in Cullum 687, 1247 and [8] 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.
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