In the second publishing of his memoirs General Sherman wrote, "... the vacancy made by Colonel McCook was filled by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, Twenty-third Infantry then serving at a cantonment on the Upper Canadian—an officer who had performed cheerfully and well a full measure of frontier service, was a capital sportsman, and of a perfect war record.

The author and Secretary of the Navy under president Van Buren, James Kirke Paulding, was Julia's great uncle.

[5] To protect settlers traveling to the American west the army set up camps and forts along the favored routes.

In 1864, General Grenville M. Dodge established a large fort in the same area on the north bank of the Arkansas River.

Dodge City later became famous for its wildness, its Boot Hill cemetery, and gunslinging lawmen like Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson.

A 1906 presidential proclamation named a butte in Wyoming as Devil's Tower National Monument based on the description of it by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge in 1875.