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the first military assignment for a young second lieutenant Robert E. Lee. This remarkably example of 19th century military architecture, with its estimated 25 million bricks and eight-foot-thick walls, is preserved for future generations by the National Park Service. workers. The fort was occupied by confederate troops shortly after the beginning of the civil war. It was held by the confederates until April of 1862 when the union army captured the fort. On April 10-11, 1862 union artillery breached the Southeast wall, using the rifled cannon. The fort was shelled from many battery positions located on Tybee Island. Today damage from the rifled cannon can still be seen on the South and Southeast wall of the fort. officers were held captive there by the union army. These men were called "The Immortal Six Hundred". They were placed on starvation rations in retaliation for the harsh treatment of union prisoners by the rebels. Rebels using these union prisoners as human shields by placing them in the line of enemy. Of "The Immortal Six Hundred", 44 men died and 13 of these men are buried in unknown graves in and around the fort. voices, footsteps, and uneasy feelings. It would come as no surprise that the fort may be haunted with the history of it and the events that happened there. Fort Pulaski is located off US highway 80 east.
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Fort Pulaski Photographs--photographs inside the fort, are these genuine orbs?