Fort Sully (South Dakota)

Fort Sully
Fort Sully
Old Fort Sully: Hughes County, about 4.5 miles southeast of Pierre, South Dakota Fort Sully II: Sully County, 30 miles farther up, and on the same side of the Missouri, and about 20 miles below the mouth of the Cheyenne River.
Site information
Controlled by	United States
Site history
Built	1863 and 1866
In use	1863–1894
Battles/wars	Indian Wars Battle of Whitestone Hill; Battle of Killdeer Mountain;
Garrison information
Past; commanders	Lt. Col. Edward M. Bartlett, 30th Wisconsin; Major Albert E. House, 6th Iowa Cavalry; Lt. Col. John Pattee, 7th Iowa Cavalry; Colonel David S. Stanley, 22nd Infantry; Captain Robert H. Offley, 1st Infantry companies F and H; Major Henry M. Lazelle, 1st Infantry; Captain Leslie Smith, 1st Infantry; Captain Thomas M. Tolman, 1st Infantry; Major Charles G. Bartlett, 11th Infantry; Lt. Col. Edwin F. Townsend, 11th Infantry; Colonel Richard I. Dodge, 11th Infantry; Major William H. Penrose, 12th Infantry; Major Jesse. A. P. Hampson, 12th Infantry; Major James H. Gageby, 12th Infantry;
Garrison	30th Wisconsin; 6th Iowa Cavalry; 4th U.S.V.I.; 22nd U.S. Infantry; 1st U.S. Infantry; 11th U.S. Infantry; 12th U.S. Infantry;

Fort Sully was one of the main military posts located on the east bank of the Missouri River in central Dakota built for use in the Indian Wars. There were two forts named Sully—old Fort Sully, which was in existence and occupied from 1863 to 1866, and the later, or new Fort Sully, which was established in 1866 and was continuously occupied as a military fort until its abandonment in the fall of 1894.