Fest at the Fort Pictures

The following website has some pictures that were taken at the Fest at the Fort:

http://www.me.com/gallery/#100025

Parade ground- Where the encampment and most of the demonstrations were.

Encampment- Lots of tents with reenactors in them.

Barracks- Where Dr. Herb Wilson talked about medicine used in 1885.

Custer House- Tours of the house given every 20 minutes.

Horses- The thing that set the Cavalry apart from the Infantry.

Chickens- Kept by the General for eggs and dinner.

Laundresses cooking, and Infantry Laundresses- These Infantry Laundresses can cook! They had all sorts of pies that they had made for the Festival. Vinegar and Sweet Onion pies, my oh my, I may have to become an infantry solder because our Cavalry Laundresses can't cook nearly as well as the infantry ones.

Gatling gun- Not used at the Little Bighorn, because Custer attacked before the Infantry could get there.

Infantry soldier- looks a lot like a Cavalry soldier however the light blue that outlines his collar and sleeves and the bugle on his Kepi.

Cannons- Another weapon that was not used at the Little Bighorn because Custer wanted to attack with the element of surprise. Could have shifted the tide of the battle with its firing power.

Cavalry soldiers- Needed at Fort Abraham Lincoln to help defend the railroad.

General Custer- Actually only a Lt. Col. at the time he resided at Fort Lincoln. Previously a Civil War hero attained the rank of Major General during that war.

Prairie Schooner- Used to transport people and goods in the absence of the railroad that only came as far West as Bismarck at the time.