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Fort Scott National Historic SitePhotograph of Powder Magazine and Officers Quarters at Fort Scott
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Fort Scott NHS
Old Fort Blvd. 
Fort Scott, KS 66701

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P.O. Box 918
Fort Scott, KS 66701-0918

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620-223-0310

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620-223-0188

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Reenactors portraying the First Kansas Colored at a Civil War Encampment at Fort Scott in April of 2003  

Did You Know?
Kansas was the first Union state to recruit, muster, train and send African American soldiers into combat during the Civil War. The First Kansas Colored Infantry mustered in at Fort Scott, Kansas on January 13, 1863. The unit compiled a proud combat record during the war.

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