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 July 13, 1866 by Companies A, C, E and H of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, under the direction of the regimental commander and Mountain District commander Col. Henry B. Carrington. The post was named for Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny, a popular figure in the American Civil War.

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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 July 13, 1866 by Companies A, C, E and H of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, under the direction of the regimental commander and Mountain District commander Col. Henry B. Carrington. The post was named for Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny, a popular figure in the American Civil War. The fort should be distinguished from the similarly-named Fort Kearny in Nebraska, which was named for Kearny's uncle Stephen W. Kearny. Today, the fort and the nearby Fetterman and Wagon Box battle sites are maintained by the State of Wyoming as the Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site. The fort was located along the east side of the Bighorn Mountains in present-day northern Johnson County, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Buffalo. Along with Fort Reno and Fort C. F. Smith, the fort was established along the Bozeman Trail in the Powder River Country at the height of the Indian Wars to protect prospective miners travelling the trail north from the Oregon Trail to present-day Montana. Fort Phil Kearny was the largest of the three stockaded fortifications along the trail. Its eight foot (2 m) high log walls enclosed an area of 17 acres (69,000 m²). The walls measured 1,496 feet (456 m) in length, tapering in width from 600 feet (180 m) on the north to 240 feet (73 m) on the south. Construction of the stockade required more than 4,000 logs. In 1867, the building construction required over 606,000 board feet of lumber and 130,000 adobe bricks. The fort was under continuous construction and was nearing completion in December 1866, when its garrison was due to be re-designated the 27th Infantry. At its peak strength the garrison numbered 400 troops and 150 civilians: 9 officers, a surgeon, and 329 enlisted men of five infantry companies of the 18th/27th Infantry, including the newly-recruited Company K, 27th; one officer and 60 men of Company C, 2nd Cavalry, and 150 civilian quartermaster and contractor employees. The fort, known to the Indians as the "hated post on the Little Piney", played an important role in Red Cloud's War. The area around the fort was the site of the Fetterman massacre and the Wagon Box Fight. By 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad had reached far enough west that emigrants could reach the Montana gold fields through present-day Idaho, rendering the dangerous Bozeman Trail obsolete. All three forts along the trail were abandoned as part of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). Shortly after, it was burned by Cheyenne Indians. Fort Phil Kearny, including the nearby sites of the Fetterman massacre and the Wagon Box Fight, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
  • El fuerte Phil Kearny fue un antiguo bastión del ejército de los Estados Unidos localizado en Wyoming que actualmente está declarado como Hito Histórico Nacional. El emplazamiento fue erigido como parte de una misión militar al mando de Henry B. Carrington para asegurar el paso de civiles en el norte de las Grandes Llanuras. Durante su funcionamiento sufrió de continuos ataques por parte de amerindios de la zona en el marco de la denominada Guerra de Nube Roja.
  • Fort Phil Kearny – w latach sześćdziesiątych XIX wieku posterunek armii Stanów Zjednoczonych w dzisiejszym północnowschodnim Wyomingu na szlaku Bozemana. Budowę rozpoczęły 13 lipca 1866 roku kompanie A, C, E i H 2. batalionu 18. pułku piechoty pod okiem dowódcy pułku i dowódcy Obszaru Górskiego płk. Henry'ego Carringtona. Posterunek został nazwany na cześć gen. Philipa Kearny'ego, znanego dowódcy z okresu wojny secesyjnej. Nazwy nie należy mylić z nazwą posterunku w Nebrasce – Fort Kearny - który otrzymał imię wuja generała, Stephena Kearny'ego.
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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 July 13, 1866 by Companies A, C, E and H of the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry, under the direction of the regimental commander and Mountain District commander Col. Henry B. Carrington. The post was named for Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny, a popular figure in the American Civil War.
  • El fuerte Phil Kearny fue un antiguo bastión del ejército de los Estados Unidos localizado en Wyoming que actualmente está declarado como Hito Histórico Nacional. El emplazamiento fue erigido como parte de una misión militar al mando de Henry B. Carrington para asegurar el paso de civiles en el norte de las Grandes Llanuras. Durante su funcionamiento sufrió de continuos ataques por parte de amerindios de la zona en el marco de la denominada Guerra de Nube Roja.
  • Fort Phil Kearny – w latach sześćdziesiątych XIX wieku posterunek armii Stanów Zjednoczonych w dzisiejszym północnowschodnim Wyomingu na szlaku Bozemana. Budowę rozpoczęły 13 lipca 1866 roku kompanie A, C, E i H 2. batalionu 18. pułku piechoty pod okiem dowódcy pułku i dowódcy Obszaru Górskiego płk. Henry'ego Carringtona. Posterunek został nazwany na cześć gen. Philipa Kearny'ego, znanego dowódcy z okresu wojny secesyjnej.
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