Fort Montgomery

Fort Montgomery

Located two miles north of Fort Mims site, 37 miles northeast of Mobile, Alabama, in Baldwin County, Alabama, near the east bank of the Tensaw River. Built in the fall of 1814 by Colonel Thomas H. Benton. This was the staging and assembly area for General Jackson’s army for the attack on Spanish Pensacola, Florida. General Andrew Jackson gathered a force at the fort before moving on Pensacola in November of 1814. Later, the fort was occupied by troops under Major Uriah Blue while conducting raids against Red Sticks.

The site of Fort Montgomery is just west of Highway 59 in Baldwyn County, Alabama, about two miles southeast of Fort Mims. The site is unmarked.