Between the opening of the post in April 1865 and its closing in October 1882, about 150 burials were made at this cemetery. One of the earliest was the sixteen-year-old son of freighter Henderson Boggs, who was shot and scalped six miles east of the fort. Other civilians buried here included travelers, employees, dependents, and some Dodge City citizens. Ed Masterson, marshal of Dodge City, was buried here in 1878 after he was killed while attempting to disarm drunken cowboys in a dance hall, but his body was later moved to a cemetery in Dodge City that no longer exists, and no evidence of his burial site remains. The bodies of military personnel were removed to Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery in 1886. The cemetery is now part of the Kansas State Soldiers' Home property, and veterans of eight wars are buried here: the Mexican War, Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Viet Nam.