 Leavenworth is the setting for "Hurt People," a 2009 novel by Cote Smith.Political activist Charles Henry Langston lived and worked here (1863-1870), assisting African-American refugees from slave states and, after the Civil War, working for black suffrage and equal rights of blacks in the West; he moved to Lawrence for the remainder of his life.General of the Army and 34th President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower once served at Fort Leavenworth.