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  2. Fort Kearny - Wikipedia

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    Fort Kearny was a historic outpost of the United States Army founded in 1848 in the Western United States during the middle and late 19th century. The fort was named after Colonel and later General Stephen Watts Kearny. [1] The outpost was located along the Oregon Trail near Kearney, Nebraska. The town of Kearney took its name from the fort.

  3. Fort Kearny (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia

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    A closeup of an 1865 map of Washington, D.C.'s defenses, showing the location of Fort Kearny to the northeast of Tenleytown. Fort Kearny was a fort constructed during the American Civil War as part of the defenses of Washington, D.C. Located near Tenleytown, in the District of Columbia, it filled the gap between Fort Reno and Fort DeRussy north of the city of Washington.

  4. Fort Kearny (Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Kearny was a coastal defense fort in the Saunderstown area of Narragansett, Rhode Island from 1901 to 1943. It was a prisoner-of-war camp for German prisoners in 1945. It is now the Narragansett Bay Campus of the University of Rhode Island. In many sources it is spelled Fort Kearney.

  5. Fort Phil Kearny - Wikipedia

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    Fort Phil Kearny was an outpost of the United States Army that existed in the late 1860s in present-day northeastern Wyoming along the Bozeman Trail.Construction began in 1866 on Friday, July 13, by Companies A, C, E, and H of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, under the direction of the regimental commander and Mountain District commander Colonel Henry B. Carrington.

  6. Der Ruf (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    Der Ruf or The Call was a German language newspaper published in Fort Kearny in Narragansett, Rhode Island during World War II by captured prisoners of war (POWs). It was distributed to about 140 other POW camps in the United States. [1]

  7. 9th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment - Wikipedia

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    September 1862-August 1863: The Regiment stationed near Washington DC [17] ( Fort Kearney, Fort Mansfield, and Fort Reno). August 1863 – May 1864: Construction of Fort Foote. [18] [19] May 18, 1864: Joines the Army of the Potomac, begins to march torwards it. Overland Campaign (May through June 1864)

  8. Nobles Emigrant Trail - Wikipedia

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    The route became known as the Fort Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road. Nobles was elected to the Minnesota Territorial Legislature and died in St. Paul in 1876. [4] The trail was briefly considered for a railroad route. Its popularity contributed to the founding of Susanville and Redding. [5]

  9. Wagon Box Fight - Wikipedia

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    The garrison at Fort Phil Kearny learned of the fight from its observation station on Pilot Hill. About 11:30 a.m., Major Benjamin Smith led 103 soldiers out of the fort to the wood camp to relieve the soldiers in the wagon boxes. Smith took with him 10 wagons, driven by armed civilians, and a mountain howitzer. He proceeded carefully and, when ...