Fort Reno

Jesse Lee Reno did not die at Antietam. He was shot at dusk on September 14, 1862, at Fox's Gap in the Battle of South Mountain, three days before Antietam, while commanding the IX Corps; carried to the post of Samuel Sturgis, he told Sturgis he was a dead man. Born in Wheeling in 1823, he finished eighth in West Point's class of 1846, where Thomas J. Jackson was a close friend, and was badly wounded at Chapultepec. El Reno, Reno, Nevada and Reno County, Kansas carry his name, and his statue stands in El Reno's Youngheim Plaza.

What the plaque says

Fort Reno Old Post about 2 mi. N. U. S. troops encamped near Chey- enne Agency in Indian uprising, 1874. Site s. w. of agency selected by Agt. J. D. Miles and Capt. T. Wint, established as permanent post, in July, 1875, and named for Gen. Jesse L. Reno who died in action in Battle of Antietam, 1862. Post abandoned Feb. 24, 1908. Reserve was U. S. remount station to 1949. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1950

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Historic Fort Reno — 1.7 mi
  The Army post beside the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency at Darlington, from which troops chased the Northern Cheyenne north in 1878, later a remount station and a prisoner-of-war camp.
• The Chisholm — 22 mi
  Kingfisher's farming and ranching museum on the Chisholm Trail's stage branch, with a heritage village and Horizon Hill, the mansion a territorial governor built for a capital that never came.

More markers nearby

• Run of '89 West Boundary — 3.8 mi
• Darlington — 5.1 mi
• Chisholm Trail — 15 mi
• Run of '89 South Boundary — 21 mi