Fort Blair Breastworks
The breastworks that enclosed Ft. Blair measured 80 feet by 100 feet. A trench, called a rifle pit, encircled the breastworks on the inside. The dirt that was extracted to create the rifle pits was then piled outside the walls to provide a protective berm. The rifle pits are indicated here by the rocks and timbers. Near this spot, Lt. Pond fired the camp's only cannon, a small 12 pound mountain howitzer. The three volleys he fired at the invading guerillas forced them into flight to the prairie to the north.
Tents to house the enlisted men encircled the encampment just inside the rifle pit trench. A corridor was left down the center of the encampment.
Marker is on 6th Street near Military Avenue (U.S. 69), on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
