. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ieut, and Quartermaster George H. Page built the fort, the buildings fromForts Pierre and Lookout having been removed to Fort Randall by Maj. CharlesE. Galpin, on the steamboat D. H. Morton. Francis Lee commandedthe first garrison in the spring of 1857. John Munroc of the FourthUnited States Artillery, was in command of Fort Randall in i86t, then garrisonedby four companies. Three companies were sent east, leaving one, in commandof Capt. John D. Brown, who left without leave at the breaking out of the Civi
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. ieut, and Quartermaster George H. Page built the fort, the buildings fromForts Pierre and Lookout having been removed to Fort Randall by Maj. CharlesE. Galpin, on the steamboat D. H. Morton. Francis Lee commandedthe first garrison in the spring of 1857. John Munroc of the FourthUnited States Artillery, was in command of Fort Randall in i86t, then garrisonedby four companies. Three companies were sent east, leaving one, in commandof Capt. John D. Brown, who left without leave at the breaking out of the Civirwar and became a colonel in the Confederate army. He was succeeded at FortRandall by Lieut. Thomas R. Tannett, who resigned to become a captain in aMassachusetts regiment on the side of the Union. In December, 1861, Mahana of the Fourteenth Iowa was assigned to duty at Fort Randall. FORT ABERCROMBIE Fort Abercrombie was authorized by act of Congress, approved March 3,1857, to be established at the most eligible site near the head of the Red River. GENERAL JOHX B. S. TODDFirst delegate to Congress from Dakota HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 215 of the North, in the vicinity of Grahams Point in Minnesota. It was buiU onthe west side of Red River, by a force under the supervision of JohnJ. Abercrombie of the Second United States Infantry, which arrived August28, 1858, and spent the winter there. The fort was abandoned in 1859, butreoccupied and rebuih in i860 by Maj. Hannibal Day of the Second UnitedStates Infantry. Captain Markham of Company B, Second Minnesota Volunteers, relieved theregulars some time in July, 1861, and was succeeded by Capt. Peter Mantor witha detachment of Company C of the Second Regiment Minnesota Volunteers, whowere found there by Company D, Fourth Minnesota Volunteers, under E. Inman, mustered into the service October 10, 1861, and immediatelydispatched to Fort Abercrombie, arriving October 22, 1861. Captain Inmanremained in comma
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