Fort Leavenworth
Depot, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Museum
FORT LEAVENWORTH
Mustering and training area for Kansas volunteers, and an important supply depot from its place on the Missouri River. Its Signal Corps detachment left for the front on October 11, 1864 and carried messages in the fighting with Price's army near Westport.
Then
During the war Fort Leavenworth was a mustering and training area for Kansas volunteers, and its place on the Missouri River made it an important supply depot.
Its Signal Corps detachment left for the front on October 11, 1864 and carried messages during the fighting with Price's army near Westport.
Now
Museum
Fort Leavenworth is an active Army post and home of the Command and General Staff College. The Frontier Army Museum stands on the grounds.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by Union Pacific.