Fort Buford State Historic Site | |
 Fort Buford's 1872 Commanding Officer's Quarters | |
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| Location | Williams County, North Dakota, SW of Williston near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers |
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| Nearest city | Williston, North Dakota |
| Coordinates | 47°59′11″N 104°00′05″W / 47.98639°N 104.00139°W |
| Built | 1866 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001308 |
| Added to NRHP | April 1, 1975 |
Fort Buford was a United States Army Post at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in Dakota Territory, present day North Dakota, and the site of Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881.[1]
Company C, 2nd Battalion, 13th Infantry, 3 officers, 80 enlisted men and 6 civilians commanded by Capt. (Brevet Lt. Col.) William G. Rankin, first established a camp on the site on June 15, 1866, with orders to build a post, the majority of which was built using adobe and cottonwood enclosed by a wooden stockade. The fort was named after the late Major General John Buford, a Union Army cavalry general during the American Civil War.
- ^ Ewers, John C. (1988): "When Sitting Bull Surrendered His Winchester". Indian Life on the Upper Missouri. Norman and London. Pp. 175-181.