{"id":146700,"date":"2025-06-18T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=146700"},"modified":"2025-05-27T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:40:11","slug":"this-day-in-history-june-18-1872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=146700","title":{"rendered":"This day in History &#8211; June 18, 1872"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146708 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This Day In History, June 18, 1872 \u2013 Fort Sykes Becomes Fort Cross. . . .&nbsp;<\/strong><em>&nbsp;from the 125th Anniversary Calendar of Jamestown History &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwiki.com\/Fort_Seward_(1)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fortwiki.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Camp Sykes (Jamestown) officially becomes Fort Cross and is established by Special order No. 80 from the Headquarters Department of the Dakota in St. Paul Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146705 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/FortSeward-akaFortCross.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The fort was initially named&nbsp;Camp Sykes&nbsp;after Colonel&nbsp;George Sykes,&nbsp;20th U.S. Infantry&nbsp;and later designated&nbsp;Fort Cross after Colonel&nbsp;Edward E. Cross,&nbsp;5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, who was killed at Gettysburg, 2 Jul 1863.&nbsp; &nbsp;Finally, on 9 Nov 1872, the name was changed to <strong>Fort Seward<\/strong> after&nbsp;William H. Seward, Secretary of State under President Lincoln.&nbsp; Abandoned in 1877.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Day In History, June 18, 1872 \u2013 Fort Sykes Becomes Fort Cross. . . .&nbsp;&nbsp;from the 125th Anniversary Calendar of Jamestown History &amp; Fortwiki.com. Camp Sykes (Jamestown) officially becomes Fort Cross and is established by Special order No. 80 from the Headquarters Department of the Dakota in St. Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":146705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-thisdayinhistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146700"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273104,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146700\/revisions\/273104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}