Indiana Military Forts
Alphabetical
list of forts, reservations, blockhouses, named camps, National
and State Homes for soldiers, national cemeteries, etc., in the
United States from its earliest settlement to date.
Many of the forts and structures
named were erected by the early settlers for their own
protection, and all vestige of them has now disappeared. The
exact locations of many are not positively known at the present
day, but reference is made to them in State histories, State
papers, etc. Those in bold-faced type are now occupied by troops
or are under the control of the War Department.(does not apply)
The data available for consultation are known to be incomplete,
and may be erroneous in some instances.
Blunt, Fort,
Indiana, Near Fort Gibson.
Branch, Fort, Indiana in Gibson
County; now town of that name.
Carrington,
Camp, Indiana at Indianapolis.
Clark, Fort, Indiana opposite Louisville, Kentucky.
Crown Hill National Cemetery, Indiana at Jeffersonville.
Davis, Fort,
Indiana.
Dumont, Camp, Indiana near Indianapolis.
Harrison,
Fort, Indiana near Terre Haute.
Holt, Joe, Camp, Indiana at Jeffersonville.
Indianapolis
Arsenal, Indiana at Indianapolis.
Indiana State Soldiers' Home at Lafayette.
Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot, Indiana at Jeffersonville.
Joe Holt, Camp, Indiana at Jeffersonville.
Knox, Fort,
Indiana at Vincennes.
Marion Branch
National Military Home, Indiana Grant County.
Miami Fort, Indiana Present site of Fort Wayne.
Morton, Camp, Indiana near Indianapolis.
Mount, Camp, Indiana at Indianapolis.
New Albany
National Cemetery Indiana at New Albany.
Noble, Camp, Indiana near New Albany.
Ohio Falls,
fort at, Indiana Opposite Louisville, Kentucky.
Ouatanon, or Ouiatenon, or Ouachtanon, Fort, Indiana, on Wabash
River, near Lafayette.
Reynolds,
Joe, Camp, Indiana near Indianapolis.
Ritner, Fort, Indiana Lawrence County; now town of that name.
Sackville,
Fort, Indiana at Vincennes.
St. Vincent, Fort, Indiana at Vincennes.
Shanks, Camp, Indiana at Indianapolis.
Sherman, Camp, Indiana at Jeffersonville.
Sullivan, Camp, Indiana Near Indianapolis.
Vajen, Camp,
Indiana at Indianapolis.
Vigo, Camp, Indiana at Terre Haute.
Virginia, Camp, Indiana at White Sulphur Springs.
Wabash, Fort,
Indiana mouth of Wabash River.
Wade, Camp, Indiana, near Lisbon.
Wayne, Fort, Indiana on Maumee River; present site of town of
that name.
Military
Forts
Source: Historical Register and
Dictionary of the United States Army, Volume 2, by Francis B.
Heitman, Government Printing Office, 1903.
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