Fort Leavenworth Arsenal
Arsenal, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Arsenal
- Where
- Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
FORT LEAVENWORTH ARSENAL
The Leavenworth Ordnance Depot supplied ordnance to the Army in the western United States from 1858 to 1874. Camp Lincoln on the post received and trained Kansas volunteers. Price's advance in 1864 prompted the Fort Sully earthworks. The arsenal moved to Rock Island in 1874.
Then
The Leavenworth Ordnance Depot, later the Fort Leavenworth Arsenal, supplied ordnance to the Army in the western United States from 1858 to 1874. At the start of the war Camp Lincoln on the post received and trained Kansas volunteers.
Price's advance in 1864 prompted the Fort Sully earthworks, but his army was beaten at Westport and never reached the post. The arsenal moved to Rock Island in 1874.
Now
Built over
Sherman Hall and Sheridan Hall survive from the arsenal on Arsenal Hill, part of the Combined Arms Center headquarters complex on the active Army post.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Union Pacific, about 0.4 miles away.