Fort Pulaski
(puhl-AS-kee), historic site, brick fortification
on Cockspur Isl., SE Ga., at the mouth of the Savannah R.; 32°01'N
80°56'W. Built 1829-1847 by the U.S. govt. and named for Casimir
Pulaski. The fort was seized by Georgia troops during the Civil War in
Jan. 1861, but fell to a Union force under Q. A. Gillmore on April 11,
1862, after a 2-day bombardment in which the Federals used rifled
cannon for the first time in the war; the battle proved the superiority
of rifled cannon over masonry forts. Fort Pulaski Natl. Monument was
est. 1924.
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