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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A6W_model-1859-seacoast-carriage_Tybee-Island-GA.html
The Phoenix Iron Works of Philadelphia made this carriage for a Parrott rifle (cannon). The weapon fired a 100 pound projectile 8500 yards. Carriage and gun weighed almost 13,000 pounds. In 1978 this carriage was recovered from a long-lost artille…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A6U_powder-magazine_Tybee-Island-GA.html
By noon, April 11, 1862, shells breached the opposite side of the fort and struck this wall. Inside sat great stores of gunpowder. The fort surrendered two hours later.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A6S_store-house_Tybee-Island-GA.html
Colonel Edward L. Molineaux, 157th N. Y. Volunteers, left a diary describing these casemates. From here, the Quartermaster Department issued bulk supplies to the garrison. During the night of February 25, 1865, seven prisoners, members of the Immo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A6P_southwest-bastion_Tybee-Island-GA.html
The Southwest Bastion held a special type of cannon to protect the fort's entrance. These cannon, known as 24-pounder flank defense howitzers, were aimed at the drawbridge. Today, this area provides a cutaway view of the fort's upper foundations.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A6M_southwest-magazine_Tybee-Island-GA.html
Used as a shell magazine during the Confederate occupation, the Federals saw fit to use it as "dark confinement" for Confederate Officers held prisoner during the Winter, 1864-65.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A69_the-parade_Tybee-Island-GA.html
The Confederates used earth and a "blindage" of timbers as protection against shot and shells falling within the fort. To reduce casualties from flying debris, the "light colonnade" or veranda roof along the gorge was removed.
Three months afte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A68_hot-shot-furnace_Tybee-Island-GA.html
Only the foundation remains of one of the fort's furnaces which heated cannon balls. Used against wooden ships, the red-hot projectiles could start a disastrous fire - even after skipping on the water several times.
Loading a cannon with hot sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A67_the-breached-wall_Tybee-Island-GA.html
The southeast angle of Fort Pulaski was breached by early afternoon on April 11, 1862. With devastating accuracy, Union rifled artillery accomplished this task in only 30 hours. It would take over 1,000 Federal troops six weeks to repair the battl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A66_the-demilune_Tybee-Island-GA.html
Surrounded on all sides by the moat, the demilune (literally "half-moon") protected the vulnerable fort entrance. This triangular area was modified in 1872 by the addition of earthen mounds which housed powder magazines. During the Civil War, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19XF_savannah-besieged_Savannah-GA.html
For most of the Revolutionary War, Savannah was an armed camp. With the approach of an allied French and American army in the fall of 1779, the British defenders of Savannah began improving and constructing a series of fourteen redoubts outside th…