his home on June 14, 1842. He was buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri. His body was later moved to Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, in the Bullitt-Gwathmey family lot. Locations named for Henry Atkinson Fort Atkinson, Iowa, a town in Iowa Fort Atkinson State Preserve, 1840s U.S. Army post in Fort Atkinson, Iowa Fort Atkinson (Nebraska), 1820s U.S. Army post in Nebraska Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, a city and fort in Wisconsin References Bibliography Further reading Nichols, Roger L. General Henry Atkinson: A Western Military Career. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Ghent, W. J. "Atkinson, Henry." Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1928. External links Letter to Ann Gentry 1782 births 1842 deaths People from Person County, North Carolina United States Army officers United States Army personnel of the War of 1812 American people of the Black Hawk War Burials at Cave Hill Cemetery