Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter at the entrance to Charleston harbor was where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. What is interesting about these 6.4 inch (100 Pounder) Parrott guns is that in the 1890's, they wanted to strengthen one wall of the fort, so they filled in the casemates with sand, with these guns still in place, completely burying them. In 1959 The site was excavated, revealing these guns. Had they not been covered, they most likely would have been cut up for scrap. I love the architecture of forts, with the multiple brick arches. It is really wonderful, and extremely rare, to see this many guns in one of these forts.