(2012) Enlarge Osceola Grave
 
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(2012) Enlarge Patapsco Monument
 
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(2004) This is a view of Fort Moultrie from the observation deck on the roof of the visitor center. The existing fort was completed in 1809 and stands on the site of two earlier forts. Fort Moultrie, with Fort Sumter across the harbor entrance, was designed to guard the mouth of Charleston Harbor from foreign attack. Instead, in 1861, the fort turned its guns on Sumter and played a key role in the opening battle of the Civil War. Held by the Confederates until the end of the war, Moultrie came under fire numerous times
 
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(2004) This is a view of the east wall of the fort, a section preserved in about the same appearance that it presented when the war began in 1861. Major Anderson and his men spiked the guns along this wall when the abandoned the fort and moved across the harbor to Fort Sumter. As the war dragged on, Confederate forces converted the old brick fort into a powerful earthwork by banking sand up against the outside of the masonry walls
 
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(2012) Enlarge Sally Port (entrance into the fort)
 
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(2012) Enlarge The Fort Moultrie Tour
 
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(2012) Enlarge Defending Charleston (Civil War interpretive sign and cannon)
 
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(2012) Enlarge Antebellum cannon
 
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