ohy_orglot1030 Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory photograph Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory photograph Sara Reinhart Oregon Historical Society Research Library 2022
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-11-21. Finding aid is written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Oregon Historical Society Research Library Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory photograph Dent, Frederick T. (Frederick Tracy), 1820-1892 Org. Lot 1030 0.1 cubic feet 1 folder in shared box 1859 Photograph of Fort Walla Walla, taken on May 1, 1859. The photograph was originally owned and may have been taken by Frederick Tracy Dent (1820-1892). Dent served as captain of the 9th United States Infantry at Fort Walla Walla. In 1859, Fort Walla Walla was a cavalry outpost for the United States military located in the Washington Territory, now Washington State. English

Collection is open for research.

Purchased from estate sale in October 1983 (Photo Acc. 983M152).

Photograph is viewable online in OHS Digital Collections.

Fort Walla Walla was a cavalry outpost for the United States military located in the Washington Territory (now Washington State). The fort was established in 1856; its exact location changed several times.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Frederick Tracy Dent (1820-1892) served as a career military officer for the United States Army, and was captain of the 9th United States Infantry at Fort Walla Walla from approximately 1859 to 1860. Dent participated in the Spokane and Yakima expeditions, and engaged in the battles of Four Lakes and Spokane Plains during the Yakima War. Dent was brother-in-law to Ulysses S. Grant and served as a military secretary for President Grant from 1869 to 1873.

Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory photograph, Org. Lot 1030, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

This collection consists of one photograph of Fort Walla Walla, taken May 1, 1859. The photograph was originally owned and may have been taken by Frederick Tracy Dent. This photograph depicts the fort's fourth location, which was constructed between 1857 and 1858, and shows many of the fort's buildings.

Photograph is in the public domain.

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