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Michigan Dave
Muskegon, Michigan, MI, USA
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 | | What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 9/25/2009 11:03:22 AM | What CW Forts have you been to? that are really well preserved, and definitely worth seeing?
MD
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| littlepowell
Greenville , SC, USA
Posts: 293
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 9/25/2009 11:51:49 AM | I've been to Sumter and Ft. Lamar in Charleston.
Sumter - It's a neat place to visit, but it's also kind of hard to get a visual of what the fort looked like during the Civil war. Mostly because it was completely reconstructed afterwards. The walls were lowered, and guns were added for WW1 and WW2. It's still a cool place to visit and the museum (although small) is worth the visit alone. Plus you get to ride out to it on a ferry boat.
Ft. Lamar - This is one of my favorite Civil War sites to visit. It's a completely earthen Fort that was located on a peninsula surrounded by water/marshes. It looks today much as it did during the battle (except for trees). The best part is most people don't even know of it existence so every time I have visited, there was not another soul in site. There is a self guided walking tour brochure at the entrance.
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| Wynn
Gettysburg, PA, USA
Posts: 18
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 9/29/2009 2:51:57 AM | In Leesburg, VA there is an earthen fort called Fort Evans. Its on private property belonging to a company called Rehau but they are usually pretty good about allowing people to check it out. The walls are still 6-8 feet high (I believe they have some playground equipment inside the fort proper....its been a couple of years since I've been there). The fort actually overlooks Leesburg and is 1/4 to 1/2 mile away from the Potomac River and Edwards Ferry...but due to tree growth and development today, I'm not sure if the river could actually be seen from the fort itself. It was occupied by the Confederates in the beginning of the war and was being used during the Battle of Ball's Bluff.
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| Gregory C. White
Canton, GA, USA
Posts: 137
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 9/29/2009 8:31:44 PM | MD,
The Savannah area has Fort Jackson, Fort Pulaski & Fort McCallister, all worth visiting.
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| 74 PA
Woodbridge, VA, USA
Posts: 139
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 10/29/2009 4:03:54 PM | Fort Ward in Alexandria, Virginia, has been beautifully restored.
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| Monty Corse
Alexandria, VA, USA
Posts: 244
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 11/5/2009 1:42:14 AM | I agree with Fort Ward, I grew up but two miles from it, wondeful littel museum about Alexandria and it's involvement as the backbone of the Army of the Potomac and the DC area fortifications system. Revolving displays every six months or so make it a nice visit every so often.
When address the questions because it needs more qualification, earthen forts, field fortification forts that saw engagements on the line, brick and mortar forts?
-Fort Macon saw action and is well preserved in Atlantic Beach, NC. It is a brick and mortar fort.
-Fort Stedman in Petersburg, VA had a battle named after it and is an earthen fort in good condition.
-DC area has numerous forts still intact, as does some of the Richmond area.
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| Bryant
Manassas, VA, USA
Posts: 18
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 11/30/2009 2:32:42 PM | Check out Fort Blakely in Alabama.
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| Michigan Dave
Muskegon, Michigan, MI, USA
Posts: 1382
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 12/6/2009 8:28:31 AM | Fort Pulaski, gaurding the entrance to the Confederate port of Savannah, GA. is a great fort to visit. I was just there a couple of days ago, and it is a beautiful fort and park. For only $3 you can get a 6 day pass. They have great interpritive rangers, I learned alot about the fort, area, and the famous Civil War battle fought their in April 10-11, 1862. Robt. E. Lee helped design the defenses of the Fort, with a double moat, 15ft thick walls! state of the art for the time defenses. It was thought by Lee to be impregnible! So much so that after reinforcing it further, he abandoned near by Tybee Island to the Union. What Lee couldn't know is that the Union developed new powerful rifled canons that could travel 4-5 miles and destroy even the thickest brick fortifications. During the battle the Union pulverised the walls of the fort, and it's commander Olmstead had to surrender. Effectively shutting off the Confederate Port of Savannah, during the rest of the war! great stuff, visit this great CW Fort, as a bonus you can see the old light house on Cockspur Island and walk the nice trail system!
regards,
Dave
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| Joe Mieczkowski
Fairfield, PA, USA
Posts: 327
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 12/6/2009 9:12:12 AM | Fort Stevens in Wash DC has NOT been well preserved
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| Jared Frederick
The Keystone State, PA, USA
Posts: 1020
| | Re: What are some of the best preserved Civil War Era Forts? | | Posted on: 12/6/2009 1:06:02 PM | Fort Moultrie is kinda neat.
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