Civil War Washington

Fort Carroll
Last Modified: 2012-02-20

Category: military > fort

Beginning date (not before): 1861-09-17

Beginning date (not after): 1861-10-01

Additional Information: This fort protected the Navy Yard and Capitol from cannonade.

Sources:

Barnard, J.G., A Report on the Defenses of Washington to the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1871).
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Civil War Washington, directed by Susan C. Lawrence, Elizabeth Lorang, Kenneth M. Price, and Kenneth J. Winkle, is published by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under a Creative Commons License.

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