Fort Blair Breastworks

Fort Blair was enclosed by breastworks measuring 80 feet by 100 feet, with an interior trench called a rifle pit whose excavated dirt was piled outside the walls to form a protective berm. Near this spot, Lt. Pond fired the camp's only cannon, a small 12 pound mountain howitzer, and the three volleys he fired at invading guerillas forced them into flight to the prairie to the north. Tents housing the enlisted men encircled the encampment just inside the rifle pit trench, and a corridor was left down the center of the encampment.

Baxter Springs, Kansas · United States