Talk:Fort Inge

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The buildings at Ft. Inge never sufficient for the troops stationed there, probably because this post was never determined by the Army to be a permanent post. It was started in 1849 but abandoned in the spring of 1951. I was reoccupied that same summer and occupied until 1855 when it was abandoned again. It was reoccupied a third time in 1856 but was abandoned to Texas state troops in 1861. It was used occasionally after the Civil War by the Army and the Texas Rangers.

Herbert M. Hart, Old Forts of the Southwest, Superior Publishing Company, Seattle, Washington, 1964, First Edition W.G. Freeman visited the fort in August 1853 as part of his tour of the 8th Military Department. At that time the land was being leased at $50 per month from Texas Revolutionary War soldier David Murphree of Victoria. Freeman described all of the buildings as being of temporary construction. Maj George Bibb Crittenden (later Major General in the Confederate Army) commanded the post with companies D and H of the Mounted Rifles. The post also had the regimental band, a hospital, and buildings for the quartermaster and subsistence departments. The principal illnesses reported at the hospital were fever (85), scurvy (22) and diarrhea (9). A mile southeast of the fort was the encampment of Company A, 3rd Infantry, which had been assigned in 1850 as an escort to the Mexican Border Commission. The 75 men of this company 17 were attached to Fort Fillmore, New Mexico and several of the officers were on duty in Washington, DC. M.L.Crimmins, editor,” Freeman’s Report on the Eighth Military Department”, The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol VIII, July, 1949 No 1, The Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas

Old Forts of the Southwest has a sketch of the fort that I have cropped but I am new and don't know how to add it to my edit. Ken mcelroy (talk) 02:26, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]