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	Fort Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Jefferson is located in the Dry Tortugas, about seventy miles west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.
		During the early years of the war, the fort was used as a supply depot for the distribution of rations and munitions to Federal troops in the Mississippi Delta and as a supply and fueling station for the naval forces engaged in the blockade of the Confederacy.
		Fort Jefferson was in a continuous state of construction and modification for thirty years, but was eventually rendered obsolete before completion.
	www.library.miami.edu /archives/shedd/fortj.htm (366 words)

	Fort Jefferson and the community of Clarksville, Kentucky
		By order of Governor Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, George Rogers Clark (brother of the famous Clark of Lewis and Clark) was ordered to build Fort Jefferson at the mouth of the Ohio River.
		The fort and community of Clarksville were the first settlement sanctioned by the Virginia government to be located in the part of Virginia that is today western Kentucky.
		Finally on June 8, 1781, Fort Jefferson is evacuated and the troops arrive at Falls on the Ohio on July 12, 1781.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~ozarkgal/Hildebrand_Fort_Jefferson_.html (1824 words)

	Florida Historic Places - Fort Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the largest of America's 19th century coastal forts, Fort Jefferson is one of the central features of the seven "Dry Tortugas Islands" in the Gulf of Mexico.
		The Department of the Army officially abandoned Fort Jefferson in 1874; established as Fort Jefferson National Monument in 1935, it was rededicated and renamed Dry Tortugas National Park on October 26, 1992.
		Fort Jefferson, part of the Dry Tortugas National Park, is 68 miles west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.cr.nps.gov /NR/travel/geo-flor/51.htm (246 words)

	CHAPTER XI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was neglected to obtain the consent of the Indians, for the erection of the fort, as the governor of Virginia bad requested.
		The fort being established, General Clark was called away to the frontiers of Kentucky, and left the fort for its protection in the hands of Captain James Piggot, and the soldiers and citizens under him.
		As soon as the preparation for the attack of the Indians on the fort was certainly known, a trusty messenger was dispatched to the falls of the Ohio, as it was called at that day, and for years afterwards, for more provisions and ammunition.
	www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /ibex/archive/reynolds/reynolds11.htm (1966 words)

	Fort Jefferson, 1779 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The move to the area occurred in April 1780 with the arrival, from the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville KY), of 150 soldiers to garrison the fort, their families, and settlers to establish the adjacent town of Clarksville.
		Upon his return to Fort Jefferson in early June 1780, George Rogers Clark gives orders to issue necessary supplies to the soldiers who will be going to "The Falls".
		On June 8, 1781, due to sickness and a lack of supplies, Fort Jefferson was abandoned.
	members.aol.com /olinl/pg7ftjefferson.html (1042 words)

	Garden Key Lighthouse at the Dry Tortugas
		Fort Jefferson is located on Garden Key—seventy miles west of Key West—one of the seven islands that make up the Dry Tortugas, which were discovered by Ponce de León in 1513 and named for the many turtles that nested in the area.
		Construction of the fort began in 1846 and continued for thirty years but the fort had outlived its usefulness before construction was ever completed.
		The largest all-masonry fortification in the Western world, Fort Jefferson was part of a coastal defense buildup after the War of 1812: It played an important part in protecting trade to gulf ports and in denying access and anchorage to any enemy fleet that might attempt a military blockade.
	www.bansemer.com /florida_lighthouses/garden_key_lighthouse.htm (594 words)

	About the Dry Tortugas
		Fort Jefferson's construction began on Garden Key in 1846 and continued for 30 years but was never finished.
		During the Civil War the fort was a Union military prison for captured deserters.
		The Army abandoned Fort Jefferson in 1874, and in 1908 the area became a wildlife refuge to protect the sooty tern rookery from egg collectors.
	www.ultimategetaway.net /tortugas.html (276 words)

	Dry Tortugas National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Jefferson on the remote Tortugas was planned as the greatest of these forts.
		In 1874 the army completely abandoned the fort after several hurricanes and a yellow fever epidemic, and it wasn't until 1898 that the military returned in the form of the navy, which used the facilities during the Spanish-American War.
		The fort was also used from 1888 through 1900 as a quarantine station, and was garrisoned again briefly during World War I. In 1908 the area was designated as a bird reserve and transferred to the Department of Agriculture.
	www.shannontech.com /ParkVision/DryTortugas/DryTortugas.html (1188 words)

	Fort Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Jefferson park and monument marks the site of an advance outpost of General Arthur St. Clair, built in October 1791.
		One of a chain of defensive forts built to protect army supplies from Indians, it served as a supply base throughout the campaigns of General St.
		Fort Jefferson is on County Road 24 at State Route 121, four miles south of Greenville in the city of Fort Jefferson in Darke County.
	www.placesohio.com /ohio-historic-sites/FortJefferson (213 words)

	Florida Maritime Heritage Trail - Coastal Forts @ Florida OCHP
		Located on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, Fort Jefferson was part of a line of coastal fortifications stretching from Maine to Texas designed to protect the nation from attack by sea.
		The fort was used during and after the war to imprison deserters and other criminals, most notably Dr. Samuel Mudd and three other men for their part in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
		Fort Jefferson was abandoned in 1874 but served as a quarantine station between 1888 and 1900, a navy base during the Spanish-American War, a seaplane base during World War I, and an observation post during World War II.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /archaeology/underwater/maritime/forts/fort.cfm?name=Fort_Jefferson (307 words)

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		Sentenced to hard labor, Mudd arrived at Fort Jefferson in 1865, sweeping and sanding the bastions and battling a yellow-fever outbreak until he was pardoned four years later.
		Soon after Fort Jefferson was designated a national park in 1992, experts such as Simpson began making periodic visits, spending a month at a time refurbishing the hot-shot furnace or chiseling out the Totten shutters and rebuilding the brickwork.
		When he and his wife moved to Fort Jefferson four years ago, the plan was for her to live in Key West, where he would commute for the occasional weekend.
	www.keynoter.com /articles/2004/04/29/living/liv01.prt (1226 words)

	Yankee Fleet of Key West venue information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Jefferson was built to protect the southern coastline of the United States and the lifeline of commerce to and from the Mississippi River.
		Fort Jefferson itself is a six-sided building constructed of 16 million handmade red bricks.
		Construction of the fort began in 1846 and in 1847 the islands became a military reservation.
	www.museumtix.com /venue/venueinfo.asp?pvt=&tab=O&vid=415 (687 words)

	Forts of Illinois..... History of Illinois Forts presented by Illinois Trails History and Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Armstrong, named in honor of former as having been Secretary of War John Armstrong, was described as having been situated on the lower extremity of the island where the shoreline consisted of 30-foot high perpendicular cliffs of limestone.
		FORT JOHNSON - In compliance with orders of General Benjamin Howard, a fort was established in late September 1814, during the War of 1812, by Brevet Major Zachary Taylor on a high bluff on the eastern bank of the Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Des Moines River, near present Warsaw in Hancock County.
		In 1759 and 1760, the fort was significantly rebuilt and renamed Fort Massiac in honor of the French minister of marine, the marquis de Massiac.
	www.iltrails.org /forts.html (13163 words)

	Glimpses of Historical Areas East of the Mississippi River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		FORT JEFFERSON is an impressive hexagonal shaped structure, fully bastioned, with great walls 425 feet long, rising 60 feet from a surrounding moat.
		In later years the strategic location of the Tortugas group became apparent, and Fort Jefferson was planned as the key to American defense in the Gulf of Mexico.
		Besides its historic interest, Fort Jefferson is surrounded by one of the richest marine gardens in the world where at least 600 varieties of aquatic life are known to exist.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/glimpses3/glimpses4b.htm (454 words)

	September 1999 Engineer Update
		Fort Jefferson lies in the Dry Tortugas National Park, a cluster of seven low-lying islands and 65,000 acres of pristine marine environment in the Gulf of Mexico 68 miles west of Key West, Fla.
		In between, the fort was a Union military prison for captured deserters during the Civil War, and it held four men convicted of complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln.
		Proclaimed the Fort Jefferson National Monument in 1935, the area was re-designated in 1992 as Dry Tortugas National Park to protect both the historical and natural features.
	www.hq.usace.army.mil /cepa/pubs/sep99/story20.htm (784 words)

	Fort Jefferson Civil War Prison
		Fort Jefferson, the largest masonry fort in the United States, took up just about all the space on 25 acre Garden Key, located in the Dry Tortugas-a chain of tiny sun-bleached islands west of Key West.
		Not intended to confine Confederate prisoners of war, the fort was used instead as a dumping ground for criminals from Union armies.
		Unimportant to the Confederate war effort, Fort Jefferson was one of four U.S. forts in the Deep South that escaped capture by the Confederates at the beginning of the war.
	www.censusdiggins.com /prison_fort_jefferson.html (392 words)

	Waterways Episode 212 transcript
		The importance of this, early forts tended to be one tier high, they were solid brick or earth wall with one row of cannons on top.
		Jefferson was built during what some consider the golden age of fort construction.
		The large bastions, built on the six corners of the fort, made it possible to sweep the surrounding waters with deadly, close-range cannon fire- protecting the fort’s flanks and adding to its impenetrability.
	www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov /edu/water/episodes/216/216transcript_1.html (1752 words)

	Monroe County page 2
		Fort Jefferson and Fort Taylor were started almost together, however due to its remote location, Fort Jefferson had different delays.
		The Fort's commander, Major Arnold, replied to the Confederate messenger, "Tell your Captain I will blow his ship out of the water if he is not gone away from here in ten minutes." The bluff worked and Fort Jeff never fired a gun in action during the war.
		Fort Jefferson is a national monument in the Dry Tortugas National Park.
	www.keyshistory.org /monroecountypage2.html (6087 words)

	Fort Jefferson - Dry Tortugas :: TheLivingSea.com
		In 1935, Fort Jefferson was proclaimed a National Monument but it wasn’t until 1992 that Dry Tortugas reached its current status as a National Park.
		Beached on the white sand next to the fort, we exited the seaplane and were shortly briefed by the pilot on the fort’s history, points of interests, and at what time we were to meet up for our departure.
		This wonderful key, the fort, and its waters made for a fantastic half-day adventure 70 miles west in what was once the realm of pirates and billions of dollars in gold and emeralds…all waiting to be discovered.
	www.thelivingsea.com /Adventures/drytortugas.php (1039 words)

	Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida / Fort Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fort Jefferson was built 1846-66 to help protect the Florida Straits.
		Fort Jefferson National Monument was proclaimed January 4, 1935 and renamed Dry Tortugas National Park October 26, 1992.
		Restrooms, picnic area and the first tier of Fort Jefferson are accessible.
	classic.mountainzone.com /nationalparks/drto (334 words)

	Garden Key (Fort Jefferson) Lighthouse, Florida at Lighthousefriends.com
		The fort encloses most of the sixteen-acre island, and the lighthouse was located in the angle of Bastion C. Work on the fort continued for three decades, but it was never completed.
		Although the fort was not involved in any battles, it did house over 2,200 prisoners over a ten-year period, with a peak of 900 prisoners in 1864.
		An outbreak of yellow fever struck the fort in 1867, and among those who died from the disease were the fort’s physician and O’Laughlen.
	www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=698 (1178 words)

	Fort Pickens and Fort Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The fort is further fortified by a wide ditch, reaching to the water, and protected by a strong counterscarp.
		The guns of the fort command the inner harbor, but the outer bay is beyond their longest range.
		The relief of Captain Meigs and party may be supposed at receiving the agreeable information that the steamer contained reinforcements with the view of preserving the fort to the United States, instead of a filibuster party to seize it for traitorous purposes.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/civil-war/1861/February/fort-pickens-jefferson-florida.htm (3264 words)

	Exploring Florida Fort Jefferson Photograph Gallery
		Fort Jefferson is located on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, about 70 miles west of Key West.
		Fort Jefferson was the largest coastal fort built in the nineteenth century.
		During the Civil War Fort Jefferson was used as a prison for deserters and other criminals.
	fcit.usf.edu /florida/photos/military/jeffer/jeffer.htm (228 words)

	Fort Belle Fontaine (Cantonment Belle Fontaine), St. Louis, Mo.
		Fort Don Carlos was located closer to the Missouri River's mouth, at the confluence with the Mississippi River (four miles downstream).
		By 1825 the wood buildings of the fort had become so rotten, it was decided that Fort Belle Fontaine would be abandoned in favor of a new military post at Jefferson Barracks.
		In 1810 Bissell moved the fort from the low bottomlands where it was threatened by the river, to the top of the overlooking bluff.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/bellefontaine/fort.htm (2992 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Indeed, it was not until recently that the coastal fort began battling a formidable foe: Mother Nature.
		"The fort is in real bad condition, and if we don't stabilize it there is a good chance it will completely crumble," said Rick Cook, spokesman for Dry Tortugas National Park, of which Fort Jefferson is a centerpiece.
		The fort was never completed, largely because of changes in weapon technology that rendered it obsolete by 1862.
	www.npca.org /magazine/march_april/news6.asp (545 words)

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