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The "Army on the Frontier" is a term applied to the activities of the United States Army stationed near the frontier settlements from the beginning of national existence until about 1890, the end of the settlers' frontier. The principal functions performed by the U.S. Army were:
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, is a town. The military's Fort Gibson was a frontier army post, now a historic site and National Landmark, observing 200 years.
When it was constructed, the fort was farther west than any other military post in the United States. It formed part of the north–south chain of forts that was intended to maintain peace on the frontier of the American West and to protect the southwestern border of the Louisiana Purchase. The fort succeeded in its peacekeeping mission for ...
The latter assembled a force of ten companies and garrisoned them in the abandoned US Army forts, [28] [29] establishing a line 400 miles (640 km) long. After a relative calm on the frontier from 1861, [28] Confederate forces were unable to defend the Texas frontier and throughout the American Civil War white settlement receded to the east. [23]
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Utley, Robert M. Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891 (1973) Richard W. Stewart, ed. (2004). American Military History Vol. 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775–1917. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. ISBN 0-16-072362-0. CMH Pub 30–21.
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The frontier settlers organized militia to defend themselves, and were supported by a few Continental Army Regiments based at Fort Schuyler, Cherry Valley, and the Wyoming Valley (now part of Pennsylvania but then disputed between that state and Connecticut).