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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO6K_infantry-life_Fort-Scott-KS.html
This reconstructed infantry barracks, one of two at Fort Scott, serves to remind us of life for an infantry soldier here in the 1840s and 50s.
During wartime, infantry fought on foot, but during peacetime, life in the infantry meant isolation, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO6J_the-crack-post-of-the-frontier_Fort-Scott-KS.html
Look at the structures around the parade ground. Fort Scott's appearance is largely the work of one man, Captain Thomas Swords, post quartermaster from 1842 to 1846. Shortly after the army assigned Swords to Fort Scott, he vowed that he would make…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO67_quartermaster-complex_Fort-Scott-KS.html
The quartermaster was the officer responsible for a multitude of functions needed to run a military post, including supply, subsistence, construction, and repair. Most of his operation took place here, in the area called the quartermaster complex.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO64_where-was-the-bathroom_Fort-Scott-KS.html
"Bathing is promotive both of comfort and health; and where convenience for it are to be had, the men should be made to bathe at least once a week. The feet are to be washed at least twice a week."1841 Army Regulations
This foundation, discover…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO62_tallgrass-prairie-trail_Fort-Scott-KS.html
"The immediate site of the post...opens out rapidly to the south in a beautifully undulating prairie."Assistant Surgeon Joseph K. Barnes, describing the Fort Scott landscape in 1862.
Walk this short trail and imagine "the most magnificent prair…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO5M_back-yards_Fort-Scott-KS.html
The back yards of Fort Scott's officers' quarters provided officers and their families private space that was not available to enlisted men. Back yards were the site of diversions such as gardening, gossiping, and entertaining.
Archeology has r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO5E_hardy-dashing-looking-fellows_Fort-Scott-KS.html
"The commands are given, the companies break into column....hardy, dashing looking fellows, those men, tanned up in their march from Fort Scott, from whence they have just joined us....The men are nearly all quite young....They are mounted on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO5D_rank-privilege-and-officers-row_Fort-Scott-KS.html
To see evidence of the rigid military caste system in the Old Army, compare the substantial homes along Officers Row in front of you to the enlisted men's barracks behind you. A soldier's rank determined his position both professionally and social…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMENL_fort-scott-civil-war-memorial_Fort-Scott-KS.html
Main marker upperThe men in whose honor this monument is erected were led bythe fires of Liberty. They fought for no North, no South, no East, no West, but for one glorious and united country.
carving of G.A.R. Medal
Main marker lower In m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEE5_fort-scott-spanish-american-war-memorial_Fort-Scott-KS.html
In memory of Spanish American War Veterans 1898 — 1902 One hundred percent volunteers