Fort Pulaski

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On April 11, 1862, the Union bombardment opened two thirty-foot holes in the southeast face of Fort Pulaski. In less than thirty-six hours the Union's new rifled cannon had brought the surrender of a fort that took eighteen years to build.

Courtesy of Georgia Historical Society.

Fort Pulaski

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