Fort Scott supply depot
Supply base, Fort Scott, Kansas.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Supply base
- Where
- Fort Scott, Kansas
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Park
FORT SCOTT SUPPLY DEPOT
The Union Army took command of Fort Scott in August 1861 and kept a major supply depot there. Troops passed through for Missouri, Arkansas and the Indian Territory. It was also a hospital and prison and recruited Black soldiers for the US Colored Troops. The Army left in October 1865.
Then
The Union Army took command of Fort Scott in August 1861 and rented several blocks of the town for commissary and quartermaster functions. A major supply depot stood at the fort, and troops from Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio and Wisconsin passed through it for Missouri, Arkansas and the Indian Territory, which Union forces at first could supply only by wagon train from Fort Scott. It was also a general hospital and prison and one of the few posts that recruited and trained Black soldiers for the US Colored Troops.
Sterling Price's Confederates came no closer than 10 miles, at Dry Wood Creek. The Army left in October 1865 and auctioned off what it controlled.
Now
Park
Fort Scott National Historic Site, run by the National Park Service.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by BNSF, about 0.3 miles away.