Fort Sanders

Fort Sanders may refer to either of the two United States Army posts named for General William P. Sanders:

  • Fort Sanders (Tennessee), the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863
  • Fort Sanders (Wyoming), a wooden fort constructed in 1866 on the Laramie Plains in southern Wyoming, near the city of Laramie

It may also refer to:

  • Fort Sanders (Colorado), a frontier trading post located near present-day Brighton, Colorado
  • Battle of Fort Sanders, the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War
  • Fort Sanders (Knoxville neighborhood), a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee
  • Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, a hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or sanders:

    She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.
    —Garrett Fort (1900–1945)

    It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)