{"id":257,"date":"2022-12-11T05:18:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T05:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2023-01-25T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:46:12","slug":"american-civil-war-fort-ft-pulaski-on-cockspur-island-savannah-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/11\/american-civil-war-fort-ft-pulaski-on-cockspur-island-savannah-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"American Civil War Fort: Ft. Pulaski on Cockspur Island – Savannah, GA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ft Pulaski was a Union Civil War fort built on Cockspur Island in Savannah, Georgia. We had the opportunity to visit it in 2018. It was a foggy, cold, damp morning the day of our visit, and the bridge to the island was under construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Ft Pulaski bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski outer wall and moat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski vaulted ceilings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski inner walls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski educator in a bunk room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski trap door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski inside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski inside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski inside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski bunk room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski defensive view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski doors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski blindage wood slats used to protect casements. These were put up all around the inside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski living quarters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski living quarters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski cistern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski cisterns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski cistern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ft Pulaski fireplace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This fort at one time held almost 600 Confederate officer POWs. They sectioned off part of the fort by adding bars to create a prison area for the POWs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ft Pulaski prison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Ft Pulaski was a Union Civil War fort built on Cockspur Island in Savannah, Georgia. We had the opportunity to visit it in 2018. It was a foggy, cold, damp morning the day of our visit, and the bridge to the island was under construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,15,16],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battlefield","category-fort","category-georgia","category-savannah","tag-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onewhitedove.com\/livinghistoryblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}