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18-Sep-2007 Robert Wall

Fort Morgan, Sally Port

Fort Morgan, Alabama

After the War of 1812, the U.S. began a program to strengthen its seacoast defenses. As part of this program, in 1818 the U.S. contracted with Benjamin Hopkins of Vermont to build a large masonry fort on Mobile Point after a design by Simon Bernard, who had been a military engineer for Napoleon. However, Hopkins died a year later in a yellow fever epidemic, having accomplished little. The next contractor, Samuel Hawkins of New York, died in 1821, before accomplishing anything on the project. The Army turned the task over to the Corps of Engineers under Capt. R.E. De Russey. Using slave labor, DeRussey was able to make some progress before he took ill in 1825 and turned the work over to his deputy, Lieut. Cornelius Ogden. Ogden completed the work in March 1834 and turned the fort over to Capt. F.S. Belton, commander of Company B, 2nd US Artillery. This unit remained at the fort for about a year and a half before its transfer to Florida to assist in the Second Seminole War. Multiple concrete arches are embedded into the walls of Fort Morgan from the beginning of the American Civil War to today.

Canon EOS 5D ,Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM
1/400s f/10.0 at 16.0mm iso160 hide exif
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Date/Time18-Sep-2007 16:01:14
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