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This book provides details on all the military posts and forts in Kansas from 1861 to 1865. Some posts were U.S. Army posts, others were forts established by community militias and one was even a permanent Confederate guerrilla camp. Numerous maps show where all these posts were located and one appendix provides geographic coordinates of all of them. This book has a detailed index at the end. The author visited virtually all the sites of these posts during his comprehensive research. Two of the posts, Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth, still exist.

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"Bill Pollard grew up in Kansas and lived there until 1997. He was awarded an M.S. degree from the University of Kansas School of Journalism and has done graduate work in history. In 1991 his first book, ""Dark Friday: The Story of Quantrill's Lawrence Raid,"" was published. ""Dark Friday"" was awarded the Lyons Kansas History Book Award in 1994. Pollard obtained an Alfred M. Landon Historical Research Grant from the Kansas State Historical Society to aid in his study of Kansas forts and posts from 1854 to 1865. He has lived in Florida and England and in 2013 was appointed to the Highlands County, Florida, Historic Preservation Commission. He has studied and written about Highlands County history and historic sites while serving on the Commission. He is currently writing a history of his community, Avon Park Lakes, and he is working on a book about Kansas forts and posts that existed from 1740 to 1861."

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