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Historic structure at Fort Sill, OK
Old Post Guard House
Former name
  • Geronimo's Guard House
  • Old Guard House
Established1872
LocationFort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma
Coordinates34°40′08″N 98°23′17″W / 34.669017°N 98.388133°W / 34.669017; -98.388133 (Fort Sill's Old Post Guard House)
TypeUnited States Cavalry History Museum
CuratorFort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum
Architect
OwnerFort Sill Army Installation
WebsiteFort Sill Historic Landmark and Museum

Fort Sill's Old Post Guard House was established in 1872 with completed erection in the summer of 1873. The limestone structure initially served as Cavalry barracks subsequently provisioned for a military stockade. The American frontier lodging quarters, refined by native sedimentary rock, is illustrative of the late 19th century confinement and relief formalities for recalcitrant tribal leaders and Indian prisoners of war pending the common soldiery of the Army on the Frontier and Federal Indian Policy. The domestic stone framework serves with historical significance considering the calendar span of the American Indian assimilation commencing in the late nineteenth century.

The Fort Sill Museum ― United States Army Field Artillery Center Museum ― was formally established in the Fort Sill's Old Post Guard House on December 11, 1934.

Henry Warren Wagon Train of 1871

Kiowa tribal chiefs Satank, Satanta, and Big Tree were incarcerated at the Fort Sill's Old Post Guard House for pernicious offenses in Young County, Texas known as the Warren Wagon Train raid.

Fort Sill and American Indian prisoners of war

For broader coverage of this topic, see Fort Sill Apache Tribe and Geronimo Surrender Site.

By Acts of Congress and Department of War appropriations in 1894, the Fort Sill military reservation was pledged as a resettlement dominion for the American Indian prisoners of war confined at Fort Pickens and Mount Vernon Barracks within South Alabama.

U.S. Statutes for Relief of American Indian Prisoners of War
Date of Enactment Public Law U.S. Statute Page No. U.S. President
August 6, 1894 P.L. 53-228 28 Stat. 233 238 Grover Cleveland
February 12, 1895 P.L. 53-83 28 Stat. 654 658 Grover Cleveland
June 28, 1902 P.L. 57-182 32 Stat. 419 467-468 Theodore Roosevelt
February 18, 1904 P.L. 58-22 33 Stat. 15 26 Theodore Roosevelt
August 24, 1912 P.L. 62-335 37 Stat. 518 534 William H. Taft

Footnotes

  1. Griswold, Gillett (1958). "Old Fort Sill: The First Seven Years". The Chronicles of Oklahoma. 36 (1 - Spring, 1958). Oklahoma Historical Society: 5, 8, 11–13. LCCN 23027299. OCLC 655582328.
  2. "Post Guardhouse" [Fort Sill in Comanche County, Oklahoma — The American South (West South Central)]. HMDB.org. The Historical Marker Database.
  3. Tatro, M. Kaye. "Curtis Act (1898)". The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Curtis Act of 1898. Oklahoma Historical Society.
  4. "Post Apache Wars". Chiricahua National Monument Arizona ~ National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.
  5. Fly, Camillus Sidney (1886). "Council between Geronimo and General Crook". Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. U.S. Library of Congress.
  6. "Apache Incarceration". Castillo de San Marcos National Monument Florida ~ National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.

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