GRANT FOREMAN CAROLYN THOMAS FOREMAN To the Friends whose assistance has made possible the restoration now in evidence in Fort Gibson Copyright by Carolyn Thomas Foreman Books by GRANT FOREMAN Published by the University of Oklahoma Press Norman, Oklahoma HOFFMAN-SPEED PRINTING CO., MUSKOGEE, OKLA. Fort Gibson was not only the oldest and most celebrated military establishment in the annals of Oklahoma but in its early days it was the farthest west outpost of the United States, and in many respec

There were several small cemeteries around Fort Gibson in which the dead were buried from the earliest days of the fort. The number of interments was increased to such an extent during the Civil War that more space was required, and in 1869 the National Cemetery was established on land that was originally part of the military reservation of Fort Gibson. After the abandonment of the fort, the reservation was transferred to the Department of the Interior on February 11, 1891, a parcel of seven acr

“This command is now, October 31, in tents on the old parade ground at Fort Gibson, the old buildings being uninhabitable.”...