United States Military Post At Baton Rouge
American forces renamed the fort Post at Baton Rouge. The Post at Baton Rouge served as the assembly point for American troops going to the Creek War in 1813-1814 and to the Battle of New Orleans in 1814-1815. The Army built the Baton Rouge Barracks just north of the Post at Baton Rouge and demolished it in 1819.
United States Army Captain James Gadsden designed the Baton Rouge Barracks and took charge of their construction from 1819 to 1825. The soldiers completed four two-story brick buildings, forming four sides of a regular pentagon, by 1825, hence the nickname "Pentagon Barracks." They also built a commissary-warehouse building, forming the fifth side of the pentagon, in 1821, but tore down this defective building within a few months due to poor construction. The Pentagon Barracks could house one thousand troops.
The Army in 1825 established a large adjacent Baton Rouge Arsenal and Ordnance Depot to serve the then-southwestern United States.
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