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Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site held a walking tour to the Fort’s cemetery on August 20, 2024. The cemetery was established in 1868 upon the U.S. Army’s arrival and has a very storied past.
Prior to the walk to the cemetery, Site Superintendent Sharie Shada had a short presentation and slide show about the cemetery.
Fort Phil Kearny was only here for a few short years, but it had a very busy history, and the soldiers assigned there were involved in several battles with the Native Americans.
She said the fort researchers are still missing the inventory which would give the names of those who died, and they are trying to piece together who all were actually buried there.
After the Fort Laramie treaty, of 1868, the forts along the Bozeman Trail were abandoned, including Fort Phil Kearny, and the area was returned to the Indians.
Years later, Shada said,
After 20 years, in many cases it was hard to identify the remains.
The remains were first interred at Last Stand Hill at the Little Big Horn Battlefield, but later were moved to their present location in the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery. Soldiers and civilians alike were buried in the Fort Phil Kearny Cemetery. There were also a few homesteaders buried there after the fort was abandoned.
After the slide show, the group took the hike to the cemetery, which is still considered as hallowed group, and there are two graves from the homestead era around Banner still inside the cemetery white fence.
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