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While you’re in Fort Scott, Kansas, it’s just a couple of miles from the National Historic Site down to Fort Scott National Cemetery. There are a couple of items of note in this cemetery.
Eugene Fitch Ware Memorial
One is the marker for the grave of Eugene F. Ware. Ware was a private in the 1st Iowa Infantry and wrote The Lyon Campaign in Missouri, a regimental history of his regiment and provides a detailed account of the events for the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. After the war, Ware was active in public life and earned the moniker, “Kansas Most Famous Poet,” writing under the pseudonym Ironquill.
Eugene Fitch Ware
1st Kansas Colored Infantry Memorial
There is also a memorial to the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, the first organized African-American unit to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. Companies from the 1st Kansas Colored fought in the Skirmish at Island Mound in Bates County, Missouri.
In Memory of the soldiers of the 1st Regiment Kansas Colored Volunteers who gave their lives in battle May 18, 1863, near Sherwood, Missouri.
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