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(7-00) Enlarge Close-up view of damage to the southeast wall near the southeast angle. Shells can be seen at top center and top right

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(7-00) Enlarge West view of the damaged southeast wall near front angle

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(7-00) Enlarge Repaired casemate at the southeast angle

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(7-00) Enlarge Store House.

Site Marker: Colonel Edward L. Milineaux, 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 Immortal Six Hundred, emerged from the grate in the floor of Casemate 8. Night after night, they had gradually tunneled through several underground walls to reach the store house. Slipping out the embrasure into a dense fog, they crossed the moat and fields only to be recaptured at the South Channel wharf. The only escape attempt from the Fort Pulaski prison ended in failure

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(7-00) Enlarge Interior view looking toward the Northwest Magazine

Tour Guide: The Northwest Magazine: On the morning of April 11, 1862, Federal artillery projectiles breached the southeast angle and crashed into the walls and roof of this magazine containing 40,000 pounds of gunpowder. Rather than be blown up by their own gunpowder, the garrison surrendered. The walls of the magazine are from 12 to 15 feet thick, or roughly for feet thicker than the rest of the walls in the fort

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(7-00) Enlarge Southeast view toward Tybee Island in the distant background

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The Breached Wall Interpretive Marker

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