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2 unusual facts about Fort Abraham Lincoln


Fort Lincoln

Fort Abraham Lincoln, an old military post near Mandan, North Dakota, now a state park

William H. Illingworth

Illingworth and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment departed for the Black Hills on 2 July 1874 from Fort Abraham Lincoln on the west bank of the Missouri River, seven miles south of what is now Mandan, North Dakota, and returned 30 August 1874.


Henry Armstrong Reed

Heavily influenced by his military uncles, he followed in their footsteps and left Monroe in May 1876 with his sister Emma for Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory.


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