What is Mount Oread Civil War posts?
[[File:WaterTowerParkMountOread (39134690981).jpg|thumb|Watertower Park now sits on top of Mount Oread where the Civil War posts were formerly located]][[Lawrence, Kansas]] was not well defended in the early part of the [[American Civil War]]. They started defending it after [[William Quantrill]]'s [[Lawrence massacre|guerrilla raid]] on August 21, 1863. By early 1864 Union soldiers permanently stayed on the top and hills of [[Mount Oread]], which was at Lawrence's southwest. It seems the camp was first named Camp Ewing, after Brig. Gen. [[Thomas Ewing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vlib.us/old_west/forts1865.html|title=Kansas Forts During the Civil War|author=William C. Pollard, Jr.|access-date=July 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Forts and Posts in Kansas: 1854-1865|author=William C. Pollard, Jr.|date=1997|publisher=Faith Baptist College and Seminary|page=19-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Deserters Captured|newspaper=Kansas Daily Tribune (Lawrence)|date=February 9, 1864|page=2}}</ref> The military area on Mount Oread was used until the end of the Civil War. When the war ended, there was no reason to keep them, so they were destroyed. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Coord|38|57|47|N|95|15|26|W|format=dms|display=title|type:landmark_region:US-KS}} {{US-stub}} [[Category:Forts in Kansas]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Lawrence, Kansas]] [[Category:1864 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:1860s establishments in Kansas]]