Jeffersonville, Indiana

===== Construction of the Quartermaster Depot =====
{{See also|Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot}}

The [[Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot|Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot]] had its first beginnings in the early days of the Civil War as a storage depot for the Union [[Quartermaster]] Department. As the war came to a close all military supply depots along the [[Ohio Valley]] were shut down (except Jeffersonville's), and their supplies were stored at the Jeffersonville location.<ref name="PDF-2012">{{Cite web |title=The Falls City Engineers, Chapter VII: Civil War Engineering and Navigation |page=113 |url=http://publications.usace.army.mil/publications/misc/un22/c-7.pdf |access-date=January 27, 2024 |website=publications.usace.army.mil |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321223211/http://publications.usace.army.mil/publications/misc/un22/c-7.pdf |archive-date=March 21, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1871, the U.S. Army began consolidating operations in the city into four square blocks.<ref name="Nokes-2002" /> Throughout the rest of the 19th century, the Quartermaster Depot continued supplying troops engaged in [[American Indian Wars|frontier wars]] with Native Americans.<ref name="PDF-2012" />