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1. FTPUL_030826_049.JPG: The breached wall -- where Union shells had torn a dangerous hole in the fort during the early afternoon of April 11, 1862 -- is here on the right. The redder bricks are the new ones which show what had to be replaced. You can see by the amount of new brick that the whole corner had become completely unsupportable. While it took only 30 hours to breach the wall, it took Federal troops six weeks to repair the battle damage and make the fort ready to be garrisoned for the remainder of the war.
2. FTPUL_030826_083.JPG: Shells still remain embedded in the wall
3. FTPUL_030826_105.JPG: The ranger mentioned they had two alligators in the moat at the time. Sometimes, when hurricanes raise the water a lot, they have as many as six. The alligators don't do any damage or pose much of a risk so the Park Service lets them do their thing.
4. FTPUL_030826_271.JPG: This caged-in area is the Fort Pulaski Prison. From the sign: "Our new ration of corn meal (sour), pickles, and seventy-five loaves of bread went into effect yesterday, and a terrible diet it is. That it will kill some is evident." -- from the diary of Captain H Dickinson. Captain Dickinson and over five hundred of his fellow Confederate Officers were imprisoned here from October 1864 to March 1865. The prison included all of the casemates in the southeast and south galleries.
5. FTPUL_030826_298.JPG: The device on the right is a Casemate Gin which would be used to winch a cannon tube up on its carriage. It would take ten men to life a 15,000 pound tube.
6. FTPUL_030826_301.JPG: You can barely see the writing now but this was where the 48th New York State Volunteers would try to relax in a fort surrounded by hostiles, by putting on theatrical productions. They also had a baseball team, orchestra, band, and drum corps.
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Wikipedia Description: Fort Pulaski National Monument
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Fort Pulaski National Monument is located between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, notable as the place where, during the American Civil War, in 1862, the Union Army successfully tested a rifled cannon. The success of the test rendered brick fortifications obsolete. The fort was also used as a prisoner-of-war camp. The National Monument includes most of Cockspur Island (containing the fort) and all of adjacent McQueens Island.

Construction:

Following the War of 1812, President James Madison ordered a new system of coastal fortifications to protect the United States against foreign invasion. Construction of a fort to protect the port of Savannah began in 1829 under the direction of Major Gen. Babcock, and later Second Lieutenant Robert E. Lee, a recent graduate of West Point. The new fort would be located on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River. In 1833, the new fort was named Fort Pulaski in honor of Kazimierz Pulaski, a Polish soldier and military commander who fought in the American Revolution under the command of George Washington. Pulaski was a noted cavalryman and played a large role in training Revolutionary troops. He took part in the sieges of Charleston and of Savannah. Wooden pilings sunk up to 70 feet into the mud to support an estimated 25,000,000 bricks. Fort Pulaski was finally completed in 1847 following 18 years of construction and nearly $1,000,000 in construction costs.

Civil War:

Though completed in 1847, Fort Pulaski was under the control of only two caretakers until 1860 when South Carolina seceded from the United States and set in motion the Civil War. It was at this time that Georgia governor Joseph E. Brown ordered Fort Pulaski to be taken by the state of Georgia. A steamship carrying 110 men from Savannah traveled downriver and the fort was signed over and now belonged to the state of Georgia. Following the secessi ...More...
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2003 photos: Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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