Fort Saratoga was one of seven temporary earthwork forts part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army.

It was located 2 1/2 miles from the city at time, between Fort Bunker Hill and Fort Thayer on the north side of Brentwood Road (now Rhode Island Avenue), east of it crossing Queen's Chapel Road.

It was established in August 1861 and built in part by the 112th Pennsylvania Regiment.

[1] The following troops were garrisoned at the fort at some point during the Civil War: With the end of the Civil War, the fort was abandoned in 1865.

[1] Today, it is a residential area with no sign of the fort.