FORT PULASKI NATIONAL MONUMENT

TYBEE ISLAND, GA

Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island, situated in the Savannah River delta, just outside of Tybee Island, Georgia. This historical site is a fort constructed in the early 1800s as a defense system for the city of Savannah. The fort was named after General Casimir Pulaski, who fought alongside the colonists during the American Revolution.

Fort Pulaski was a significant strategic point during the Civil War and was the site of a historic battle in 1862. The Union Army seized the fort from the Confederate Army and used it as a base to blockade the Savannah River. The fort was eventually surrendered to the Union forces, leading to the eventual capture of Savannah in 1864.

Today, Fort Pulaski National Monument serves as a reminder of the significance of the Civil War and its impact on the region. Visitors can explore the fort and its surrounding grounds, which include walking trails, picnic areas, and a visitor center with exhibits and historical artifacts. The site also hosts various events and programs throughout the year, including reenactments and living history demonstrations.

Fort Pulaski National Monument is a must-visit destination for history enthusiasts and those interested in learning about the Civil War's impact on the region. Its beautiful setting and well-preserved fortifications make it a unique attraction in the Savannah area.

FORT PULASKI NATIONAL MONUMENT is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in TYBEE ISLAND GA. US MID #8401300098

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

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Civil War at Fort Pulaski: bam! Days before Georgia seceded from the United States and joined the Confederacy, the state seized the federal fortification of Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island near Savannah. Unfortunately for the Confederacy, it then did not support the surrounding ground because it thought Tybee Island was too remote, a waste of resources for what it deemed to be an impenetrable fort. The Civil War would quickly test those military assumptions. The United States thought of Fort Pulaski in terms of a bigger picture–Southern supply chain, military logistics, and economic bottleneck. Controlling traffic of the Southern port city of Savannah was very important to the overall war effort.

The United States military took advantage of the blind eye of the Confederacy's military command. First came the U.S. Navy, blockading the Savannah River for a 112-day siege of the fort. But that was not enough. The U.S. Army built up troops and batteries by night at Tybee Island, hidden, on Fort Pulaski's facing shore of the Savannah River.

On April 10, 1862, U.S. troops struck out. Rolling back their camouflage, they bombarded Confederate-occupied Fort Pulaski and won. The Confederate commander unconditionally surrendered, noting his isolation from any Confederate backup and that a breached wall exposed his entire garrison to the possibility of a catastrophic explosion from the ammunition storage area. He stated:

&quot;We were absolutely isolated beyond any possibility of help from the Confederate authorities, and I did not feel warranted in exposing the garrison to the hazard of the blowing up of our main magazine -- a danger which had just been proved well within the limits of probability.&quot;†

The reclaimed fort would remain under U.S. control for the remainder of the Civil War.

The Confederacy did not emphasize the loss of Fort Pulaski because of clearer tactics or strategy employed by their foe that capitalized on the Confederate military's blindspots but rather because of the Union's state-of-the-art technology that Confederate commanders did not anticipate to be used against their impenetrable fort, i.e. new rifled-bore cannons of the Union shot further and more accurately than traditional smooth-bore cannons. The new cannon fire could now reach the fort from the opposite shore to bring down its walls.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pulaski_National_Monument" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Wikipedia observes</a> the strategic loss for the Confederacy and the strategic gain of Fort Pulaski for the United States: &quot;all shipping into and out of Savannah ceased. The loss of Savannah as a viable Confederate port crippled its war effort.&quot;

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†Source– <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pulaski_National_Monument" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Wikipedia</a>: Quote from Colonel Charles H. Olmstead, commander of Fort Pulaski's Confederate garrison, Fort Pulaski brochure, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior

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FORT PULASKI NATIONAL MONUMENT
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TYBEE ISLAND
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MID #	8401300098
Name	FORT PULASKI NATIONAL MONUMENT
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Classification	Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern
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LAT/LONG	32.0161974, -80.8677567
CODES	FIPS State Code: 13 FIPS County Code: 051 US Census Tract: 011103 US Census Block: 1014