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===Civil War and after=== With the outbreak of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] in 1861, emigrant traffic declined and the Army abandoned Fort Hall. It was briefly occupied by the Volunteer soldiers of the [[Union Army]]. Flood waters of the Snake River washed away the Old Fort Hall in 1863. Fort Hall was rebuilt in 1864, on Spring Creek just north of the original Fort Hall. The old fort was taken apart to construct the new fortified stage station. The following year, the site was abandoned. The Volunteer troops moved to Camp Lander until 1866. It was located {{convert|3|mi|0|spell=in}} southeast of the original Fort Hall, at the junction of the Salt Lake and Boise roads. In 1867, the United States established the [[Fort Hall Indian Reservation]] for displaced Boise and Bruneau Shoshone, with local Shoshone and Bannock included under an 1868 treaty.<ref name=ishs>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/0964.pdf |title=Fort Hall Tribal Headquarters, Reference Series #964 |date=January 1993 |publisher=Idaho State Historical Society |access-date=April 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418081025/http://www.history.idaho.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/reference-series/0964.pdf |archive-date=April 18, 2016}}</ref> They had suffered years of encroachment on their territory by European American settlers. The town of [[Fort Hall, Idaho|Fort Hall]] developed about {{convert|11|mi|km}} east of the old trading post and fort; both are within the reservation. In 1961, the site of the original Fort Hall, which is marked by a memorial, was declared a [[National Historic Landmark]]. A replica of the original Fort Hall was constructed in the 1960s in Pocatello, about {{convert|30|mi|-1|spell=in}} away, and is operated as a public museum.
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