Soldiers and slaves built more than 400 log huts as winter quarters for the soldiers garrisoning and working on the fort. In addition to government rations of flour, fresh and cured meat, sugar, and coffee, every boat brought boxes from home filled with all kinds of things a farm or store could provide. Off-duty soldiers from the local area hunted and fished in the same locations they had frequented a few short months before as civilians. Sometime after the surrender, Federals burned the cabins because of a measles outbreak.

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Courtesy of Don Worth, Webmaster 48th OVVI www.48ovvi.org

(10-00) Interior of Log Hut
 
Courtesy of Don Worth

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Courtesy of Brian Risher, MS