Friday, March 30, 2012

fort pulaski






Historic Fort Pulaski is a brick masonry fort (an impressive 25,000,000 bricks), complete with an alligator living moat, constructed originally by the United states but then taken over by the confederates right before the civil war. Then in 1862 the Union Army, using the first rifled cannon, took back the fort. The battle was over 3 hours after the rifled cannon was shot. What was super cool, is you can still see the cannons lodged in the masonry walls. The fort was then used as a prisoner-of-war camp to hold southern army leaders who ended up being known as the immortal 600. The most impressive fact to us was that, through the engineered design, not a single crack has formed due to settling of the structure.

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