Department of the Missouri(Indian Wars)
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Department of the Missouri was a sub division of the Department of the Missouri
Department of the Missouri
Department of the Missouri was a division of the United States Army that functioned through the American Civil War and the Indian Wars afterwards.-Civil War:...

 of the United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

 that functioned through the Indian Wars
Indian Wars
American Indian Wars is the name used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between American settlers or the federal government and the native peoples of North America before and after the American Revolutionary War. The wars resulted from the arrival of European colonizers who...

. In 1865 at the end of the Civil War the Department of the Missouri
Department of the Missouri
Department of the Missouri was a division of the United States Army that functioned through the American Civil War and the Indian Wars afterwards.-Civil War:...

 was renamed the Division of the Missouri (however widespread usage continued to call it the Department of the Missouri). A new Department of the Missouri of the Division of the Missouri was formed in 1866 and ultimately included the Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

, Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

, Indian Territory
Indian Territory
The Indian Territory, also known as the Indian Territories and the Indian Country, was land set aside within the United States for the settlement of American Indians...

, and Territory of Oklahoma.

Department of the Missouri(Indian Wars )

  • Winfield Scott Hancock
    Winfield Scott Hancock
    Winfield Scott Hancock was a career U.S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War...

    (1866–1867)
  • Philip Sheridan
    Philip Sheridan
    Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S...

     (1867–1869)
  • John Pope
    John Pope (military officer)
    John Pope was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He had a brief but successful career in the Western Theater, but he is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the East.Pope was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in...

     (1870–1883)
  • Christopher Columbus Augur (1883–1885)
  • Nelson Appleton Miles (1885–1886)
  • Thomas Howard Ruger (1886)
  • Orlando Bolivar Willcox (1886–1887)
  • --- (1887–1891)

Kansas

  • Bear Creek Redoubt(1870–1878)
  • Big Creek Station(1865–1867)+
  • Carlysle Station (1865–1866)+
  • Camp Caldwell (1884–1885)
  • Camp Crawford (1868)
  • Crisfield Post (1885)
  • Camp Drywood (1871)
  • Camp Grierson (1866)
  • Camp Hoffman (1867)
  • Camp Kirwin (1865)
  • Camp Ogallah (1867)
  • Camp Pliley (1869 - 1870?)
  • Camp Wichita (1868–1869)
  • Chalk Bluffs Station(1865–1867)+
  • Castle Rock Creek Station(1865–1867)+
  • Cimarron Redoubt
    Cimarron Redoubt
    The Cimarron Redoubt was an improvised U.S. Army fortification south of the city of Ashland in Clark County, Kansas, United States. Built in 1870 near a major trade route's crossing of the Cimarron River, it was later used for a variety of civilian purposes, including a post office...

    (1870–1876)
  • Cimarron Springs Station (1864–1873)
  • Fort Aubrey
    Fort Aubrey
    Fort Aubrey, in eastern Hamilton County, Kansas, was established by the US Army in the 1850s. It originally had no name and was not made a truly permanent post until 1865. It was originally established to serve as a temporary resting place for traveling troops.The intermittant camp was...

     (1865–1866)
  • Fort Bissell
    Phillipsburg, Kansas
    Phillipsburg is a city in and the county seat of Phillips County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 2,581.-19th century:...

     (1873–1878)
  • Fort Coon (1868)
  • Fort Dodge
    Fort Dodge (US Army Post)
    The site of Fort Dodge in the US state of Kansas was originally an old campground for wagons traveling along the Santa Fe Trail. A military camp was established on the site in 1864, but was abandoned....

    (1865–1882)
  • Fort Downer or Downer's Station (1867–1868)
  • Fort Harker
    Fort Harker (Kansas)
    Fort Harker, located in Kanopolis, Kansas, was an active military installation of the United States Army from November 17, 1866 to October 5, 1872. The fortification was named after General Charles Garrison Harker, who was killed in action at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the American Civil War...

     (1866–1872)
  • Fort Hays
    Fort Hays
    Fort Hays was an important frontier outpost of the United States Army located in Hays, Kansas between 1865 and 1889. Fort Hays was the home of several well-known Indian wars regiments including the Seventh U.S. Cavalry, the Fifth U.S. Infantry, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, whose black troopers were...

    (1865–1889)
  • Fort Jewell(1870)
  • Fort Larned
    Fort Larned National Historic Site
    Fort Larned National Historic Site, located six miles west of Larned, Kansas, United States, preserves Fort Larned, which operated from 1859 to 1878...

     (1859–1878)
  • Fort Leavenworth
    Fort Leavenworth
    Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army facility located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, immediately north of the city of Leavenworth in the upper northeast portion of the state. It is the oldest active United States Army post west of Washington, D.C. and has been in operation for over 180 years...

     (1827–present)
  • Fort Lincoln
    Fort Lincoln
    Fort Lincoln may refer to:*Fort Lincoln *Fort Abraham Lincoln, an old military post near Mandan, North Dakota, now a state park*Fort Lincoln Internment Camp, former military post and internment camp near Bismarck...

    (1861–1879)
  • Fort Lookout
    Fort Lookout (Kansas)
    Fort Lookout, in the northeast corner of Republic County, Kansas, was established by the US Army near the beginning of the American Civil War, in 1861. Its purpose was to protect the military road running from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort Kearney, Nebraska Territory. The area witnessed many...

    (1866 - 1870's)
  • Fort Monument(1865–1868)
  • Fort Protection (1885)
  • Fort Riley
    Fort Riley
    Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in Northeast Kansas, on the Kansas River, between Junction City and Manhattan. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 100,656 acres in Geary and Riley counties and includes two census-designated places: Fort Riley North and Fort...

     (1853–present)
  • Post of Southeastern Kansas
    Fort Scott National Historic Site
    Fort Scott National Historic Site is a historical area under the control of the United States National Park Service in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States. Named after Mexican-American War General Winfield Scott, during the middle of the 19th century it served as a military base for army action...

     (1869–1873)
  • Fort Solomon
    Fort Solomon
    In early 1864 settlers in Ottawa County, Kansas, began building Fort Solomon and completed it by the spring or summer. This structure replaced the much smaller dugout owned by the Chapman family and used as a refuge in times of trouble . The Chapman dugout was about a mile south of Fort Solomon...

    (1864–1865)
  • Fort Montgomery
    Fort Montgomery (Eureka)
    Fort Montgomery in the town of Eureka, Kansas was built in summer 1861 by local citizens for protection against Indian attacks and Confederate guerrilla forces....

    (1861–1869)
  • Fort Wallace
    Fort Wallace
    Fort Wallace was a US Cavalry fort built in Wallace County, Kansas to help defend settlers against Cheyenne and Sioux raids. All that remains today is the cemetery, but for a period of over a decade Fort Wallace was one of the most important military outposts on the frontier.-External links:* * *...

     (1865–1882)
  • Fort Zarah
    Fort Zarah
    A fort in Barton County, Kansas, just outside Great Bend, Kansas, that was used from 1864-1869.- Dates of operation :In July 1864, because of frequent Indian attacks in the area, Camp Dunlap was established 2 miles east of present day Great Bend, Kansas, where the Santa Fe Trail crossed the Walnut...

    (1864–1869)
  • Grinnell Springs Station(1865–1867)+
  • Henshaw's Station(1865–1867)+
  • Lookout Station or Fort Lookout (1866–1868)
  • Monument Springs Post (1865–1867)
  • Pond Creek Station(1865–1866)+
  • Russell Springs Station (1865–1866)+
  • New Kiowa Post (1885)
  • Smoky Hill Station(1865–1867)+

  • + Army fortified Butterfield Stage stations along the Smoky Hill River route.

Indian Territory and Territory of Oklahoma

  • Camp Alice (1883)
  • Camp Auger (1873–1874)
  • Camp Beach or Fort Beach or Fort Otter or Camp Otter (1874)
  • Camp Chilocco (1885)
  • Camp Guthrie (1889–1891)
  • Camp Oklahoma (1889)
  • Camp Price (1889)
  • Camp at Purcell (1889)
  • Camp Robinson (1871)
  • Camp Rockwell (1888)
  • Camp Russell (1884–1886)
  • Camp Wade or Camp at Kingfisher (1889)
  • Cantonment on the North Fork of the Canadian River (1879–1882, 1885)
  • Fort Arbuckle
    Fort Arbuckle
    Not to be confused with Old Fort Arbuckle , a site in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.Fort Arbuckle was a United States military fort near Hoover, Oklahoma....

     (1851–1870)
  • Fort Cobb
    Fort Cobb
    Fort Cobb was a United State Army post established in what is now Caddo County, Oklahoma in 1859 to protect relocated Native Americans from raids by the Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne....

     (1859–1862, 1868–1869)
  • Camp Davidson (1878–1882)
  • Fort Gibson
    Fort Gibson
    Fort Gibson, now located in Oklahoma and designated Fort Gibson Historical Site, guarded the American frontier in Indian Territory from 1824 until 1890...

     (1824–1901)
  • Fort Reno
    Fort Reno (Oklahoma)
    Fort Reno was established as a permanent post in July 1875, near the Darlington Indian Agency on the old Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation in Indian Territory, in present-day central Oklahoma. Named for General Jesse L. Reno, who died at the Battle of South Mountain, it supported the U.S...

     (1875–1948)
  • Fort Sill
    Fort Sill
    Fort Sill is a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.Today, Fort Sill remains the only active Army installation of all the forts on the South Plains built during the Indian Wars...

     (1869–present)
  • Depot on the North Fork Canadian River and Camp Supply
    Fort Supply
    Fort Supply was a United States Army post established on November 18, 1868, in Indian Territory to protect the Southern Plains...

     (1868–1878)
    • Fort Supply
      Fort Supply
      Fort Supply was a United States Army post established on November 18, 1868, in Indian Territory to protect the Southern Plains...

       (1878–1894)
  • Sewell's Stockade (1870's)
  • Sheridan's Roost (1870)
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