Fort Union was a frontier fort at

Dodgeville, Wisconsin Dodgeville is a city in and the county seat of Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,984 at the 2020 census, making it the county's most populous city. Dodgeville is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hist ...

, United States, during the 1832

Black Hawk War The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis (Fox), and Kickapoos, known as the "British Band", crosse ...

. It served as military commander Henry Dodge's headquarters during that war.

History

Henry Dodge, who became known as a military commander during the

first located in Wisconsin in 1827 where he established a lead smelting operation. His settlement became known as Dodgeville and during the 1832 Black Hawk War Fort Union was constructed.Dodge's Grove and Fort Union
, Dictionary of Wisconsin History, ''Wisconsin Historical Society'', accessed April 16, 2009. Fort Union served as Dodge's headquarters during the war.Pelzer, Louis. ''Augustus Caesar Dodge: A Study in American Politics'',
Google Books
, State University of Iowa, 1909, pp. 17-18.

References

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