Fort Lytle is an American Civil War fort located on what is now the campus of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

[1] The fort was built in 1861 by Confederate army troops under General Simon Bolivar Buckner at the peak of Vinegar Hill and was named Fort Vinegar.

It was renamed for William Haines Lytle after his 1863 death leading a cavalry charge in the Battle of Chickamauga.

It was later improved by the Union army under Colonel Benjamin Harrison.

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