Major General Frederick Steele Memorial (Sinclair, Wyoming)
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Wyoming
United States
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"Major General Frederick Steele
1818 - 1868 General Steele commanded a division of the Union Army at Vicksburg. Later he commanded all Union forces on the line of the Arkansas, exercising President Lincoln's policy of conciliation and reconstruction. At the end of the war he served in Texas, on the Mexican border. He then was sent to Oregon and Washington as commander of the Department of the Columbia.
Shortly following his death, Fort Fred Steele was named in his honor."
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Wyoming Recreation Commission
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Wyoming Recreation Commission
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Indigenous Land
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https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=89846
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