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:

    “I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to—Well, we warned you.”
    —Garrett Fort (1900–1945)

    “A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)