Fort
Sisseton
Fort
Wadsworth, 1864
Fort
Sisseton, 1867
Restored by W.P.A. workers in the mid 1930’s.
General Photograph (P96)
Includes photos of the barracks, 1902, 1936, 1940; stable, 1938; cannon, commanding officer’s quarters, buildings prior to restoration (barracks, magazine, mule barn, stable, guard station, commissary sergeants office, oil house, hospital, library and school house, doctors residence, adjutant’s office, coal shed, carpenter’s shop and blacksmith ), 1902, 1910, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936; images of W.P.A. workers restoring buildings; aerial view of the fort; 1955, 1963, 1969; hospital,1886, 1915; south barracks, powder house, images of maps of Fort Wadsworth (Fort Sisseton); view of the parade ground, 1935; Dedication of the fort, 1959; 100th Anniversary celebration in 1964; commissary, moat and embankment, area of the scout headquarters & military agency built by Joseph R. Brown in1864 before it was moved to Minnesota in 1866, and various reenactments and celebrations.
Hospital at Fort Sisseton, about 1886.
Hummel, Edward A. (H75-319)
Manuscript, n.d. This manuscript on the history of Fort Sisseton was written by Edward A. Hummel. Hummel was the Assistant Historian for the National Park Service, Omaha, Nebraska at the time he wrote the manuscript. Box 3549A
Returns from U.S. Military Posts (MF 48)
Post returns and records for Fort Sisseton, South Dakota for June 1864 to June 1889. Includes names of enlisted men and commissioned officers, ranks, regiments, companies, remarks and a record of events for that month. MF 1629
Sterling, Everett Willis (H77-038)
Papers, 1948-1965. Sterling was a historian and professor at the University of South Dakota. The majority of this collection consists of research notes, correspondence, and writings. The major work in this collection is an unpublished, untitled biography of Indian Agent Joseph R. Brown and his connection with Fort Sisseton and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux. Box 3624-3625 and MF22
United States Army. United States War Department. (H79-007)
Blueprints, [1880]. Blueprints of Fort Sisseton. MD 66
Fort Sisseton. South Dakota Historical Collections. South Dakota State Historical Society: Pierre, S.D.
Fort Sisseton. South Dakota History. South Dakota State Historical Society: Pierre, S.D.
Kaple, Todd. Fort Sisseton: report on 1992 archaeological excavations at a 19th century frontier military post in Marshall County, South Dakota. Vermillion, S.D. : Historical Preservation Information Service, University of South Dakota, [1993].
Schuler, Harold H. Fort Sisseton. Sioux Falls, S.D.: Center for Western Studies, 1996
Colton's Dakota and Wyoming, 1868. locations of forts. (1859)
Fort Sisseton Military Reservation, 1919. (#529-532)
Vertical Files
Fort Sisseton