* 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens ; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D. C ..

This gave the city defenses time to organize and repel Early, who arrived at Fort Stevens in Washington at around noon on July 11, two days after defeating Wallace at Monocacy, the northernmost Confederate victory of the war.

While stationed at Fort Sill, he first met the daughter of the post Executive Officer, Katherine ( Kitsy ) Stevens Van Deusen, 9 years old at the time.

Since Lincoln was watching the fight from the ramparts of Fort Stevens, this was only time in American history when two former opponents in a presidential election faced one another across battle lines.

Fort Stevens, located near the peninsula formed by the south shore of the Columbia river and the Pacific Ocean, became the only continental US military installation attacked in World War II, when submarine I-25 of the Imperial Japanese Navy fired 17 rounds at the base June 21, 1942.

Gen. Wheaton had become a local folk hero when he successfully defended Washington, DC and nearby Fort Stevens from an attack by Confederate General Jubal Early on July 11 – 12, 1864.

In the words of Luther E. Stanley, " When Isaac Ingle Stevens was ordered to Fort Owen in 1853, he came to what he supposed would be a military fort but much to his surprise, it was a trading post.

General Stevens, for the past year, had been in charge of military operations and Indian affairs in the Northwest Territory ... he moved his government and military material to Fort Owen.

He was killed in action in 1862 at Chantilly .... Stevens laid out a new town near the ruins of St. Mary's Mission and Fort Owen ... It was named Stevensville in his honor and authorized by President Lincoln on May 12, 1864.

Hastings was the first town settled in Oswego County when Oliver Stevens built a rude house near the abandoned Fort Brewerton in 1789.

Fort Stevens was built in the Warrenton area in 1863.

Warrenton includes the former communities of Fort Stevens, Hammond, and Skipanon.

Fort Stevens post office operated at the Fort Stevens military post from 1899 to 1949.

In 1864, his regiment was briefly mustered into active service and sent to be garrison troops at Fort Stevens, part of Washington, D. C .' s defenses.

* Two U. S. Army forts were named for Stevens — Fort Stevens in the Union defenses of Washington and Fort Stevens in Oregon, which was active from 1863 until 1947 to protect the mouth of the Columbia River.