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Title: The Fort Leavenworth-Fort Gibson Military Road and the Founding of Fort Scott
Description: Article gives the history of the establishment of the military road from Fort Snelling to Louisiana, with emphasis on the portion between Fort Leavenworth and Fort Gibson in Oklahoma. The whole route was divided into three sections: Northern - Fort Snelling to Fort Leavenworth; Southern - Arkansas River to Fort Towson; and Middle - Fort Leavenworth and the Arkansas River. Includes a map of the whole route, dated June, 1845, "compiled for the U.S. Topographical Bureau and published in Doc. 59, Serial 322; with additional data from a map [1851] accompanying Doc.1, Serial 611". Also has a map which shows the Fort Leavenworth-Fort Scott segment.
Date: 1942-05-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Recollections of Early Times in Kansas Territory: From the Standpoint of a Regular Cavalryman
Description: Article was written for the Kansas State Historical Society by Robert Morris Peck. He was in the military and belonged to Company E, First Cavalry stationed in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Discusses the fort, pre-Civil War Kansas, the Indians, early Kansas City, Bent's Fort, western trails, etc.
Date: 1903-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Douglas's Battery at Fort Leavenworth: The Issue of Black Officers during the Civil War
Description: Photos, illustrations, and article about the black soldiers enlisted in "the Independent Battery, U. S. Colored Light Artillery, or Douglas's Battery" at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, during the Civil War. Description of several African Americans in the Union military in the mid-1800s not formerly allowed to join in previous American wars because of their race or ethnicity.
Date: 2000
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Plan of Cantonment Leavenworth, 1828 [and] A Report and Remarks on Cantonment Leavenworth
Description: Portrait (of Colonel Leavenworth), map (of the plans for Cantonment Leavenworth in 1828), and article about Fort Leavenworth, planned in 1828 and built in 1829 near the present city of Leavenworth, Kansas, and named for its first leader, Colonel Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834).
Date: 1947-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Early-Day Fort Leavenworth, Missouri: Selected Scenes, Episodes and Facts of This Western Outpost from Its Founding to the Mexican War
Description: History of Fort Leavenworth from its founding in 1827 to the Mexican War in 1846, describing its role in safeguarding the Santa Fe Trail from Indians and others, its establishment by Colonel Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834) in 1827, etc., with map and illustration.
Date: 1956-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

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