BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Circle Forts -- Battery Ricketts

DC -- Circle Forts -- Battery Ricketts:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FTRICK_181121_07.JPG: Your litter hits close to home. Take control. Take care of your trash.
2. FTRICK_181121_17.JPG: Battery Ricketts Earthworks of Battery Ricketts are visible inside the wooded area in front of you. Civil War Defenses of Washington 1861-1865 Battery Ricketts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing. Battery Ricketts, built to defend an area in front of Fort Stanton, was named for Maj. Gen. James B. Ricketts.
3. FTRICK_181121_21.JPG: Other Civil War fort locations administered by the National Park Service
4. FTRICK_181121_24.JPG: Battery Ricketts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing. Battery Ricketts, built to defend an area in front of Fort Stanton, was named for Maj. Gen. James B. Ricketts.
5. FTRICK_181121_32.JPG: Plus the trash...
Description of Subject Matter: Fort Ricketts
Captain James B. Ricketts Fort Ricketts was most likely named for Captain James B. Ricketts, and later Major General who was an officer of artillery and a Mexican War veteran. He commanded a battery at First Manassas where he was wounded four times and taken prisoner by the Confederates. Fort Battery Ricketts may have been named for Captain R. Bruce Ricketts (no picture available).

Fort Ricketts was constructed to protect the Maryland or eastern end of the two bridges crossing the Anacostia (at the Navy Yard and two and a half miles upstream at Benning's Bridge) and to occupy the heights above the Navy Yard and Washington Arsenal. Fort Ricketts was constructed after the Battle of First Manassas, when it was determined that the fortification of the entire city would be necessary. At this time, the construction of Fort Ricketts and seven other works began in order to fortify a six mile area from a narrow and contorted ridge between Oxon Run to the south and the District of Columbia boundary on the north. Fort Ricketts, in particular, was built to sweep a ravine in front of Fort Stanton that it could not cover.
Fort Ricketts was a small fort with a perimeter of 123 yards equipped with four guns requiring a garrison of 206 men (42 artillery and 164 infantry).
In September 1865, advertisements were placed in Washington, Baltimore, and Alexandria newspapers, calling for sealed bids on the abatis, timber, lumber, and other materials within the listed forts. Among these was Fort Ricketts. The four government buildings at Ricketts--an 18 by 22 foot officers quarters, a barracks measuring 20 by 50 feet, the 16 by 50 foot mess hall, and a long guard house--were also sold.
The above was from https://www.nps.gov/cwdw/learn/historyculture/-fort-ricketts.htm
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