Dec 31, 2025 · Fort McHenry was never attacked during the Civil War, and any further uprisings after the Pratt Street Riots were deterred. The fort’s most important role became what no one …

Designed for thirteen heavy guns, Fort Wright could cover all of the ground from the front of Kyle Battery eastward to the Licking River. It was named for Major General Horatio Wright, …

The historic site, Kentucky's largest and best-preserved Civil War earthen fortification, sits within the park high atop historic Pearman Hill, 300 feet above the City of West Point.

At the confluence of the Salt and Ohio Rivers in North Hardin County, Kentucky, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, ordered the construction of …

Mar 16, 2016 · I see photos of a blockhouse that was built post-war, but apparently the Civil War earthen fort itself is still there, having been restored as a WPA project in the 1930s.

Sep 25, 2023 · Resting on the western fringes of Missouri’s landscape, Fort Osage, also known as Fort Clark or Fort Sibley, played a crucial role in the early 19th-century American frontier.

Topographical map showing defenses of Cincinnati. 8. Kentucky Forts: Civil War Defenses of Cincinnati. 9. Ohio Squirrel Hunters Defend Cincinnati - Ohio Civil War 150. 10. Lewis Wallace …

Gen. Lew Wallace led Union troops and volunteers from rural Ohio (known as “Squirrel Hunters”) across Ohio River on a hastily constructed pontoon bridge made of coal barges. Marching …

Feb 4, 2025 · Eddleman offers details on the forts and their construction and discusses some of the major events in the southeast Missouri region during the war, and post-war.

Reports of Kirby Smith's CSA troops approaching Cincinnati caused panic in September 1862. Gen. Lew Wallace led Union troops and volunteers from rural Ohio (known as "Squirrel …