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Fort Dodge operated until 1882 and was then somewhat maintained by a custodian. The citizens of Dodge City worked to have a soldiers' home established on the old post. In 1889 President Grover Cleveland signed a bill allowing part of the military reservation to be used as a soldiers' home. [1]
Dodge City residents worked to have the old fort used for a retired soldiers' home, since most of the buildings were still functional. After much work toward that goal, a federal law was enacted in 1889 authorizing the use of the post as a soldiers' home by the State of Kansas. In early 1890 the Kansas Soldiers' Home was opened on the site. The ...
Some were kept in the two large Army posts, Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth. Others were kept in locations scattered through the state, including Camp Phillips, near Smolan, Kansas . Camp Phillips was a camp used to train 75,000 to 80,000 soldiers for a tank destroyer battalion.
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Fort Dodge was United States Army outpost about five miles from Dodge City. On October 4, 1878, at 4 am, cowboy James Kennedy (1855–1884), known a Spike , fired shots in to Kelley home, thinking the mayor was home sleeping, one of the shots hit Hand in the side and killed her instantly, she was 34-years old.
Indiana State Soldiers Home, West Lafayette, Indiana [41] Iowa Veterans Home, Marshalltown, Iowa [42] Kansas Soldiers' Home, Fort Dodge, Kansas [43] Kansas State Soldiers' Home a.k.a. Western Branch National Military Home, Leavenworth, Kansas [37] Confederate Soldiers' Home and Widows' and Orphans' Asylum, Georgetown, Kentucky [44]
Life for the soldiers at a frontier post like Fort Worth (1849-1853) was tedious and joyless, an endless series of drills and fatigue duties relieved only occasionally by free time.