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Fort Crittenden, Patagonia vicinity, Santa Cruz County, Arizona

[Historic American Buildings Survey Frederick D. Nichols, Photographer August 1937 View Looking North Habs, Ariz,12-Pat.V,1-1]

FORT CRITTENDEN - Patagonia vicinity, Santa Cruz County, Arizona (1867-1873)

Fort was established August 10, 1867 on Sonoita Creek between Sonoita and Patagonia. Named for Col. Thomas L. Crittenden of 32nd infantry, who had served at Shiloh, Stone River, and Chickamauga in the Civil War. Often confused with the site of Old Fort Buchanan, as is cited by Arizona Places Names, but is not a continuation of that Fort. The fort was established to protect settlers in the Babocomar, Sonoita, and Santa Cruz Valleys. It saw much action during the Apache Wars especially between the years 1870 and 1871. Fort was closed June 1, 1873.

One of the soldiers posted at Camp Crittenden, Sergeant James Brown, was awarded the Medal of Honor for successfully leading a detachment of 4 men against a superior force of Apaches.

These stone walls are the most prominent ruin. Former powderhouse, perhaps?. With the Santa Ritas behind. [2002]

FORT CRITTENDEN - Utah (1860-1861)
On 9 November 1858, amid gun fire and patriotic music, the soldiers of Camp Floyd, Utah Territory, raised the United States flag above their newly completed garrison. Named for Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, the post housed the largest concentration of U.S. troops to that time, in what immediately became the third largest city in Utah.

In 1860, after Floyd's Southern sympathies caused his dismissal from cabinet, the post was renamed Fort Crittenden. Then, when fighting in the South escalated into the Civil War, the frontier troops were called back east to that conflict. By midsummer of 1861 Camp Floyd/Fort Crittenden was abandoned.

CAMP CRITTENDEN - Missouri(1861)
Seventh Iowa Infantry in Missouri. In September 1861 it was moved down to Mayfield Creek, and established Camp Crittenden, distant from the Mississippi river about three miles, and from Columbus the rebel stronghold, about eight.

Action at Elliott's Mills, Camp Crittenden, 22 September 1861.
CAMP CRITTENDEN - Marion County, Kentucky (1861-1865)
Starting in June of 1864, the Union Army started mustering Black troops into the US Army at Camp Crittenden for 3 years of service.

The pay at this time was $13 a month for white troops, but only $9 a month for the Black troops. A large number of Black units was mustered at Lebanon with White officers over the units.

Camp Crittenden mustered into U.S. service, at Lebanon, KY, from June of 1864 to April of 1865, a total number of 2,043 Blacks from the state of Kentucky alone. And of this number of Black troops, 211 of them died at Camp Crittenden from 1864 to 1865.

FORT CRITTENDEN - Lexington, Kentucky
Fort Crittenden (1). This earthworks fort was built in 1863 was built mostly of slave labour. It was built, with the nearby New Redoubt, to protect the pro-Union government. Unsuccessfully attacked by the Confederates in 1864. Later known as Fort Boone. Forest Hill Park is located in the centre of the town of Frankfort on a forested hill
Fort Crittenden (2). Undetermined location
CAMP CRITTENDEN
North of Nogales, in southern Arizona (Indian era.)