Fort Washita
Supply base, near Durant, Oklahoma.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Supply base
- Where
- near Durant, Oklahoma
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- State historic site
FORT WASHITA
Confederate forces took the post after the federal garrison left in April 1861. It saw no fighting and was a supply depot and hospital in the Indian Territory on the Texas Road, later the headquarters of Douglas Cooper. Confederate forces burned and abandoned it at war's end.
Then
Confederate forces took the post after the federal garrison left in April 1861. It saw no fighting and was an important Confederate supply depot and hospital in the Indian Territory, on the Texas Road, and later the headquarters of Douglas Cooper.
Near the end of the war Confederate forces burned the buildings and abandoned the post.
Now
State historic site
Fort Washita Historic Site and Museum, owned by the Chickasaw Nation since 2017, keeps the grounds and a Confederate cemetery.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 7 miles away.