Fort Buford
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.
Fort Buford State Historic Site | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Fort Buford's 1872 Commanding Officer's Quarters | |
| 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 |
| Built | 1866 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001308 |
| Added to NRHP | April 1, 1975 |
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.
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