Confederate troops occupied Fort Smith for the first two years of the Civil War, using it as a supply depot and base of operations. . . .

. . . . Thousands of men camped on the hills and prairies surrounding Fort Smith, while quartermasters and commissary officers did their best to obtain uniforms, shoes, weapons, ammunition and food for the soldiers. . . .

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