Fort Shaler
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Fort Shaler was a hilltop earthworks fortification, built during the American Civil War in Northern Kentucky by the Union Army to turn back invading Confederate troops. It was constructed to protect Cincinnati and the Ohio River valley. The location of this battery is marked by the Bandstand in Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate, Kentucky.
Fort Shaler was one of the 28 artillery batteries that were built on Northern Kentucky hilltops from 1861 to 1863 for the Defense of Cincinnati.
The Battery was named for Dr. Nathaniel Burger Shaler, a prominent Newport, Kentucky physician, had offered his family's hilltop vineyard (which was adjacent to the cemetery and would eventually be purchased from the family estate as an addition to Evergreen) as a site for the battery, it was named in his honor.
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Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors, American Guide Series, The Weisen-Hart Press, May 1943, page 539
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