Fort Wallace Cemetery - Wallace, Kansas
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BruceS
N 38° 54.364 W 101° 33.590
14S E 278031 N 4309468
The Fort Wallace Cemetery was the burial grounds for Fort Wallace in western Kansas.
Waymark Code: WM33CE
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 02/03/2008
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From Kansas: A Guide to the Sunflower State - Tour 3:
FORT WALLACE CEMETERY is enclosed by a wall of local limestone. A
MONUMENT TO THE SOLDIERS, also of limestone, was erected here in 1867.
Restoration of the monument and the wall was made possible by State
appropriation in 1930. Ornamentation and inscription on the monument are
in good condition. Many of the soldier dead have been removed to other
military cemeteries; but about 60 remain--mostly cholera victims.
Fort Wallace Cemetery is now part of the Wallace Township Cemetery. The
Fort's cemetery is enclosed in a rock wall. Fort Wallace was the furthest west
fort in Kansas and was in existence from 1865 until 1882. The cemetery was the
burial site for soldiers who died while serving at Fort Wallace. In 1886 the
military moved most of the soldiers remains to Fort Leavenworth. The cemetery
has a memorial placed in 1867 by the soldiers from the fort honoring their
fallen comrades. To project the monument from further deterioration it is now
sheltered in a small building shielding it from the elements. The cemetery
including its rock wall has been restored.