Fort Garland, Colorado
Written By: Lieutenant Colonel Clayton R. Newell, USA-Ret. In June 1852, Major George A. H. Blake, 1st Dragoons, established Fort Massachusetts in northern New Mexico Territory, which today is part […]
Fort Apache, Arizona
By Lieutenant Colonel Clayton R. Newell, USA-Ret. In July 1869, Major John Green, 1st Cavalry, led an expedition into the White Mountains of eastern Arizona Territory searching for hostile Apache […]
A Tale of Two Forts on Mobile Bay: Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan
Written By: Eileen Mattei Two forts separated by only three miles remained worlds apart in the roles they played over a 195-year span. From their authorization as Third System coastal […]
The Fort Jackson Museum Community
The Fort Jackson Museum Community (FJMC) at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, consists of four museums: the Fort Jackson, U.S. Army Chaplain, U.S. Army Adjutant General Corps, and U.S. Army Finance […]
The 82d Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
The 82d Airborne Division War Memorial Museum at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, tells the story of the U.S. Army’s “All American” division, including its organization as a “square” division and […]
Fort Myer, Virginia
Fort Myer, Virginia, traces its origin as an Army post to the Civil War. It has been an important Signal Corps post, an Army cavalry site, the site of the […]
Camp Enoch H. Crowder, Missouri
By Danny Johnson The initial political support for a new Signal Corps Replacement Training Center came from Republican Congressman Dewey Short of Missouri in 1941, who sponsored legislative action on […]
