Fort Pulaski. Aligators live in the moat and deterred Confederate Officers being held as prisoners of war from 1862 in trying to escape. The Union fores took Pulaski Fort in 1862 and kept Confederate Officers there as prisoners during the Civil War. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Fort Pulaski. Aligators live in the moat and deterred Confederate Officers being held as prisoners of war from 1862 in trying to escape. The Union fores took Pulaski Fort in 1862 and kept Confederate Officers there as prisoners during the Civil War. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Fort Pulaski.Fort Pulaski was for defence against a possible Spanish invasion of Georgia which had been set up to provide a buffer for South Carolina from a Spanish invasion from Florida. Count Casimir Pulaski was a Polish nobleman who volunteered his service for the American War of Independence and is credited with establishing the American cavalry forces. Washington promoted him early to the position of general in the Continental Army. He had performed with great bravery and skill in several early battles against the British including Brandywine, Trenton, Burlington and he had wintered with Washington and his troops at Valley Forge just outside of Philadelphia. Fort Pulaski was built in 1829 but the decision to build it was made in 1814 after the devastating two year war with the British known as the War of 1812. The Americans realised they needed to protect their coastal cities from attack. The fort was made of red brick with walls up to eleven feet thick (to be safe from mortar attack from naval vessels) and a surrounding moat (now with alligators in it). It was not finished until 1847. But it was never needed to protect Savannah from enemy attack – until the Civil War broke out. After secession in February 1861 and the creation of the Confederacy, Georgian troops occupied the fort. But in December 1861 they evacuated most troops as it was thought to be too isolated. In April 1862 Union troops began an attack on the remaining troops in Fort Pulaski. New guns were used by the Union troops to bombard the fort. After 30 hours one section of wall was breached and the Commander surrendered in case the arsenal in the fort was blown up. The Union forces repaired the fort and then were able to stop all shipping into or out of the port of Savannah. This helped the North with their stranglehold of Southern trade and resources. After Lincoln’s famous Emancipation Proclamation of January 1st 1863 many slaves went to the Fort trying to escape to the North. Late in the Civil War the Fort was turned into a prisoner of war camp by the North for Confederate Officers giving rise to the Immortal Six Hundred. Who were they? They were Confederate Officers (war prisoners) used as human shields on Morris Island in Charleston harbour by the Union forces. It was hoped that these human shields would stop the gunners on Fort Sumter firing at Union forces on Morris Island. After an outbreak of yellow fever the 600 Confederate Officer prisoners were taken from Morris Island to Fort Pulaski. Some died here of starvation whilst refusing to sign the Oath of Allegiance to the United States. It has been a National Park site since 1933 and a rather sacred place to Southerners. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-05-24 12:50:02 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |