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2 unusual facts about Fort Sully


Camp Porter

Camp Porter was established on the right bank of the Yellowstone River (approximately 3 miles above the mouth of Glendive Creek) by Company A, Eleventh Infantry, from Fort Sully, and Company B, Seventeenth Infantry, from Fort Yates, on 18 October 1880, as a winter camp for troops guarding working parties and materials on the Northern Pacific Railroad (N.P.R.R.).

Fanny Kelly

Fanny began to fear that the Sihasapa intended to attack Fort Sully and not give her up.



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