Fort Reno

Its first winter garrison were former Confederate prisoners. Two companies of the 5th U.S. Volunteers, who had sworn allegiance to get out of Union prison camps, held the stockade through the winter of 1865 with a company of Omaha and Winnebago scouts. When Colonel Carrington arrived on June 28, 1866, only 104 of their 137 men were left; the rest had deserted or died, mostly of illness and scurvy, Captain George Williford among them. The post was named for General Jesse Reno, killed at South Mountain in 1862, not Marcus Reno of the Little Bighorn.

What the plaque says

Fort Reno U. S. Military Post Established Aug. 28.1865 Abandoned Aug. 18.1868 This monument is erected by the State of Wyoming and the citizens of Johnson County 1914

Where it stands

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