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	FORT MOULTRIE. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Constructed by Col. William Moultrie, the fort was renamed for him after he repulsed a British naval attack in June, 1776, in one of the most decisive battles of the American Revolution.
		During the Civil War, Confederates held the fort until the evacuation of Charleston in 1865.
		Fort Moultrie is part of Fort Sumter National Monument (see National Parks and Monuments, table).
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/fo/FortMoul.html (110 words)

	Fort Sumter National Monument - Fort Moultrie (U.S. National Park Service)
		In December 1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union, and the Federal garrison abandoned Fort Moultrie for the stronger Sumter.
		When the Confederate army evacuated the city in February 1865, Fort Sumter was little more than a pile of rubble and Fort Moultrie lay hidden under the band of sand that protected its walls from Federal shells.
		Fort Moultrie was modernized in the 1870s, employing concepts developed during the war.
	www.nps.gov /fosu/historyculture/fort_moultrie.htm (622 words)

	Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Monument
		Fort Sumter was one of a series of coastal fortifications built by the United States after the War of 1812.
		Fort Sumter was one of few forts in the South that remained in Federal control during the immediate months after South Carolina and six other state seceded from the Union.
		Fort Sumter National Monument and Fort Moultrie are historical units of the National Park Service.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/charleston/sum.htm (649 words)

	Fort Sumter
		Major Robert Anderson reports Fort Sumter is being threatened in Charleston as federal forces begin to improved Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter in the harbor.
		On December 27 Charleston awoke to an abandoned Fort Moultrie, its cannon spiked, and a force of federal soldiers commanding the harbor at Fort Sumter.
		On his left, Sullivan Island had Fort Moultrie, a brick fort with low walls that was the site of a famous battle of the American Revolution where the state militia had installed a major concentration of cannons.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Fort_Sumter (1778 words)

	War between the States - Battle of Fort Sumpter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fort Sumter, in the very mouth of the harbor, was in an unfinished state and without a garrison.
		By the possession of Forts Moultrie and Pinckney and the arsenal in Charleston, their military stores fell into the hands of the State of South Carolina, and by the governor's orders a careful inventory was made at once of all the property and duly reported to him.
		Fort Moultrie also fired a few shots, and the Star of the West rapidly changed her course and, turning round, steamed out of the range of the guns, having received but little material damage by the fire.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/america/civilwar/cw26.htm (2924 words)

	Fort Moultrie - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fort Moultrie, on Sullivans Island at the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, S.C.; originally called Fort Sullivan.
		The Story of Fort Moultrie: Part 1B War and Rumors of War
		Osceola: Patriot and Warrior; Died At Fort Moultrie Jan. 30, 1838
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-fortmoul.html (284 words)

	Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, SC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, SC on Historic
		Osceola's death at Fort Moultrie in 1838 foreshadowed the outcome of their struggle.
		Signs are posted in the fort so visitors can guide themselves in the fort going back in time to the events of World War II to the American Revolution.
	www.vergie.com /fortmoultrie.html (458 words)

	The Patriot Resource: William Moultrie
		Moultrie did not have stone available to construct the walls, so he used palmetto logs to build two parallel walls sixteen feet apart and filled in the gap with sand.
		Moultrie ordered fortifications built there, so that even sending troops across by the few boats he had was now out of the question.
		Moultrie was involved in the American defeat at Stono Ferry, South Carolina on June 20, 1779.
	www.patriotresource.com /people/moultrie.html (728 words)

	Fort Sumter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fort Sumter had been abandoned by the Confederates because the Union forces had approached.
		The fort lasted through a fifteen month siege in 1863 to 1864 led by General P.G.T. Beauregard, the same general that had led the attack on Fort Sumter.
		Even though now Fort Sumter is a war-free place, no one will ever forget that the fort was where the first battle happened in a war that would eventually become the greatest war in history.
	www.nhusd.k12.ca.us /Barnard/WINNING/FortSumter.html (644 words)

	Fort Sumter
		Fort Moultrie, located on Sullivan's Island, was built to help defend Charleston from hostile ships; it was virtually defenseless against a land attack, and by all indications an attack was eminent.
		Fort Moultrie, with Fort Sumter in the distance.
		December 26, recognizing the vulnerability of Moultrie to an assault from land, Anderson moves to Sumter in the middle of the night.
	www.vw.vccs.edu /vwhansd/HIS269/Exhibits/Sumter.html (1570 words)

	Charleston Fort Sumter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fort Sumter was one of the few that remained in Federal hands.
		When South Carolina seceded, there were four Federal installations around Charleston Harbor: Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, Castle Pinckey on Shute's Folley island near the city, Fort Johnson on James Island across from Moultrie, and Fort Sumter at the harbor entrance.
		Six days after the secession ordinance, Anderson concluded that Moultrie and the other works were indefensible and secretly transferred the Federal troops to Fort Sumter, a mile away.
	www.ego.net /us/sc/chs/tts/page2.htm (783 words)

	From Moultrie to Sumter
		The garrison of Fort Moultrie consisted of 2 companies that had been reduced to 65 men, who with the band raised the number in the post to 73.
		Fort Moultrie had no strength; it was merely a sea battery.
		We have not been in the habit of regarding the signal shell fired from Fort Johnson as the first gun of the conflict, although it was undoubtedly aimed at Fort Sumter.
	www.civilwarhome.com /doubledaysumter.htm (2925 words)

	Florida Forts
		A Spanish fort destroyed by the SC colonial militia in 1702.
		A Spanish fort on the north bank of the Matanzas River, northeast of the city, near the present-day Vilano Bridge.
		The fort was rebuilt or reconfigured in 1738, 1752, and 1762.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/fl.html (1710 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| America's Civil War \| America's Civil War: Union's Mission to Relieve Fort Sumter
		The Union soldiers saw no one as they marched out of Fort Moultrie just after sunset on December 26, 1860, and made their way through the tiny town of Moultrieville, South Carolina, to the sea wall where their bobbing boats were moored.
		He became convinced that his command was vulnerable inside Fort Moultrie and that the best thing to do was to move the garrison to Fort Sumter, a large masonry fort on an artificial island overlooking the seaward approaches to Charleston.
		The civilian workmen at Fort Sumter were just settling down for the evening when a Union landing party appeared at their door.
	www.historynet.com /acw/blfortsumter (1258 words)

	South Carolina American Civil War Battle Fort Sumter
		Fort Sumter continued to fire from time to time, but at long and irregular intervals, amid the dense smoke, flying shot, and bursting shells.
		Before my aides reached the fort the United States flag was displayed on the parapet, but remained there only a short time, when it was hauled down and a white flag substituted in its place.
		George S. James, commanding at Fort Johnson, had the honor of firing the first shell at Fort Sumter, and his conduct and that of those under him was commendable during the action.
	americancivilwar.com /statepic/sc/sc001.html (2072 words)

	Moultrie, William - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the war his gallant defense of a small fort on Sullivans Island (later named Fort Moultrie) prevented (1776) Sir Henry Clinton and Sir Peter Parker from taking Charleston.
		Even Moultrie's skill failed to prevent the fall of Savannah to the British in 1778.
		He was captured in the fall of Charleston to the British in 1780.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-moultriew.html (267 words)

	Fort Moultrie National Monument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In any case, Charleston was saved from capture, and the fort was named for the commander in the battle, William Moultrie, and the locals, to this day celebrate 'Carolina Day' to commemorate the bravery of the defenders of the fort, the 2nd South Carolina Regiment.
		The fort was eventually captured by the British in the siege of Charleston.(See the 'southern theatre in the article titled American Revolution.
		As tensions heightened after Great Britain and France declared war in 1793, the United States embarked on a systematic fortification of important harbors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Moultrie (495 words)

	Fort Construction and the Civil War.
		Initial plans called for almost 200 new forts to be built, but by the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 only 30 of these were completed.
		Fort Pulaski was one of these forts (Click here for more information about the Third System of American Coastal Defense).
		Archeology related to the bombardment of Fort Pulaski is completely derived from 1990 excavations at one of the batteries on Tybee Island.
	www.cr.nps.gov /seac/pulaski/2-civil_war (1872 words)

	Sullivan's Island-Fort Moultrie- National Monument-Charleston, SC
		Fort Moultrie's history covers over 170 years of seacoast defense, including the first decisive victory in the American Revolution and the firing onto Fort Sumter during the first battle of the Civil War.
		Fort Moultrie was built using the area's most abundant building resource, the palmetto tree.
		It is said the island is a haunted place, populated with the ghosts of broken hearts and lives of untold courage.
	www.funbeaches.com /Sullivan's-Island.html (230 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Paintings > The Battle of Fort Moultrie
		John Blake White’s The Battle of Fort Moultrie “portrays in a spirited manner the famous battle.
		At the center background, along the perimeter wall of the fort, is the artist’s own father, Blake Leay White, who is thought to have participated in the battle.
		During the bombardment, the fort's flag—a distinctive silver crescent on a blue field—was shot down by the British.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_33_00004.htm (823 words)

	Fort Moultrie \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Charleston \| Frommers.com
		Colonel William Moultrie's troops repelled the invasion in one of the first decisive American victories of the Revolution.
		The fort was subsequently enlarged into a five-sided structure with earth-and-timber walls 17 feet high.
		The fort also played roles in the Civil War, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, and even in the two World Wars, but by 1947, it had retired from action.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/charleston/A21920.html (263 words)

	Seminoles Conflict
		Duncan L. Clinch, commanding Fort King, took the offensive immediately with 200 men and on 31 December 1835 defeated the Indians on the Withlacoochee River.
		He was also permitted the privelege of "liberty within the walls" of the fort and received visits from the elite of Charleston society.
		At the end of February 1838, the Seminoles remaining at Fort Moultrie were taken to New Orleans where they began the journey to their new reservation.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/seminoles.htm (1672 words)

	Fort Pickens and Fort Sumter
		Fort Pickens stood at the western edge of an island, running roughly parallel to the coastline and separated from it by Pensacola Bay.
		Towards the latter part of January, reinforcements commanded by Captain Israel Vogdes were sent to the fort aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn, a powerful steampowered warship.
		The explanation for this change of policy was an arrangement, or "truce," entered into by President Buchanan and Florida officials, by which Florida agreed not to attack the fort and, in return, the Brooklyn would not land its troops unless the fort were attacked or preparations made for its attack.
	www.tulane.edu /~latner/Background/BackgroundForts.html (647 words)

	Fort Sumter National Monument - Fort Sumter National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
		Decades of growing strife between North and South erupted in civil war on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on this Federal fort in Charleston Harbor.
		Fort Moultrie is a unit of Fort Sumter National Monument.
		Winters may be cool and damp with occasional periods below freezing.
	www.nps.gov /fomo (170 words)

	Fort Moultrie National Monument - Areaparks.com
		Fort Moultrie's history covers 171 years of seacoast defense, including the first decisive victory in the American Revolution and the firing onto Fort Sumter during the first battle of the Civil War.
		The third Fort Moultrie, built in 1809, stands today.
		By touring the fort, visitors can see how coastal defenses have evolved.
	fortmoultrie.areaparks.com (74 words)

	Charleston, SC: Official Wartime Correspondence
		I left orders to have all the guns at Fort Moultrie spiked, and the carriages of the 32-pounders, which are old, destroyed.
		I abandoned Fort Moultrie because I was certain that if attacked my men must have been sacrificed, and the command of the harbor lost.
		They also took possession to-night of Fort Moultrie, from which I withdrew the remainder of my men this afternoon, leaving the fort in charge of the overseer of the men employed by the Engineer Department.
	www.civilwarcharleston.com /fort_sumter/correspondence.html (2041 words)

	FORT MOSE
		As all good Florida students know the Castillo de San Marcos is the fort built by the Spaniards to protect the settlers in St. Augustine.
		The students are also taught about Fort Matanzas and its place in St. Augustine's history.
		Osceola, however, was transferred to Fort Moultrie at Charleston, SC where he died.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0213580/fortmose1.html (393 words)

	Photographic images of Fort Sumter
		Fort Sumter was built on a man made island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor.
		It was designed to compliment Fort Moultrie, which lay across the shipping channel on Sullivan's Island.
		The fort was not quite completed at the start of the war.
	www.swcivilwar.com /SumterPhotos.html (265 words)

	Fort Moultrie — FactMonster.com
		Fort Moultrie - Moultrie, Fort: see Fort Moultrie.
		William Moultrie - Moultrie, William, 1730–1805, American Revolutionary general, b.
		Fort Sumter - Fort Sumter, fortification, built 1829–60, on a shoal at the entrance to the harbor of...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0819264.html (184 words)

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