Army encampment just upstream from the juncture of the Missouri and the White River. The fort had ten-foot-high palisades and four-pound guns and room for two garrisons. Inside the palisades there was a blacksmith and commissary and a powder room, a hospital, and a storeroom with fifty sacks of grain and enough sustenance for the entire company for nearly a year. In 1827 eighty men were stationed at the fort on eighteen-month tours of duty. It was considered a hardship to be stationed in that desolate stretch of country where there was little hope for conflict or possibility of advancement, far from civilization and also far from the trapping regions. The soldiers spent their time farming and clearing land and improving the settlement, which was originally called Fort Burnham, and later, when the fort was moved five miles downstream to the juncture of the White River with the Missouri, and the town overgrew the garrison, the settlement was called Smitts Bend, as it is called today. The garrison of U.S.
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