If you could only pick one

[ColonelBuckwalter]

I've been to a lot of forts and seen a lot of former locations of forts. Be it due to the environment, progress, or neglect some places are gone. If you had your druthers, even in your fantasies, which fort would you like to walk through that is no more?

Honestly I have two. One is Battery Wagner. Not just for the history but from the layout.

The other is back home in Florida. It was nicknamed 'Fort Mosquito'. It was located in New Smyrna Beach in what is now a park. A giant debris field now.

 

[Sheltowee]

"That is no more" makes this a great question. A tossup between Ft. Sanders in Knoxville, and Ft. Negley in Nashville.

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

"That is no more" makes this a great question. A tossup between Ft. Sanders in Knoxville, and Ft. Negley in Nashville.

Excellent choices. I forget to think about inland fortifications. But I'm from the coast so you'll have to pardon me.

 

[Stryker65]

Fort Fisher, North Carolina.

 

[ErnieMac]

Battery Wagner would be my first choice, but Fort Henry and Fort Hindman (Arkansas Post) are worth noting.

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

The Alamo, as it was (If i could only pick one).

Runners up:

Fort Cummings or Fort Marcy (New Mexico).

Fort Martin Scott or Fort Lancaster (Texas).

 

[bdtex]

If you had your druthers, even in your fantasies, which fort would you like to walk through that is no more?

Fort Griffin at Sabine Pass.

 

[Kearny The Magnificent]

My vote is for Fort Henry.

Fort Fisher, North Carolina.

Good news - they just reconstructed it (including the underground portions) on the original site and opened a new visitor center.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article298500178.html

 

[Stryker65]

My vote is for Fort Henry.


Good news - they just reconstructed it (including the underground portions) on the original site and opened a new visitor center.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article298500178.html

Only 15%...but better than zero! Wish there was such a thing as Un-Erosion.

 

[Coffeelover]

Not a fort but Topsail Battery south of Hampstead NC. Topsail Battery saw action on several occasions during the war.

 

[archieclement]

ACW probally Fort McRee as been to other Pensacola forts in the battle of the forts, of any period in US, Fort San Carlos (St Louis)

Battle of St. Louis | American Revolutionary War

revolutionarywar.us

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

Only 15%...but better than zero! Wish there was such a thing as Un-Erosion.

I concur!

 

[Whitfield's Legion]

I've been to a lot of forts and seen a lot of former locations of forts. Be it due to the environment, progress, or neglect some places are gone. If you had your druthers, even in your fantasies, which fort would you like to walk through that is no more?

Honestly I have two. One is Battery Wagner. Not just for the history but from the layout.

The other is back home in Florida. It was nicknamed 'Fort Mosquito'. It was located in New Smyrna Beach in what is now a park. A giant debris field now.

For me it's gotta be Fort Griffin. A great Texan battle!

 

[Stryker65]

For me it's gotta be Fort Griffin. A great Texan battle!

Agree with this. A reenactment would be great! Especially with those stakes for measurement in the river.

 

[Whitfield's Legion]

Agree with this. A reenactment would be great! Especially with those stakes for measurement in the river.

It'd be so fun. A reenactment or even a movie would be be great!

 

[huskerblitz]

Battery Wagner would be my first choice, but Fort Henry and Fort Hindman (Arkansas Post) are worth noting.

These would be my choices as well.

Special shout out to Fort Hill in Frankfort, Kentucky. Great view of the city.

 

[NFB22]

In all of history, the extensive fortifications at the Siege of Alesia during the Gallic Wars would be those I'd have liked to see the most.

A few that haven't been mentioned.

Fort Ripley in Charleston Harbor
Fort Powell in Mobile Bay

 

[Pollaco]

I was going to say Fort Griffin at Sabine Pass but it's already been mentioned twice. So how about Fort Esparanza near Indiaola,Texas which also isn't there any more.

 

[Stryker65]

In all of history, the extensive fortifications at the Siege of Alesia during the Gallic Wars would be those I'd have liked to see the most.

A few that haven't been mentioned.

Fort Ripley in Charleston Harbor
Fort Powell in Mobile Bay

Fort Powell got blown up during the war, IIRC, and the men retreated across the sandbars. It would be interesting to see the sand at the level it had been during the war.

 

[Rhett Butler]

What about Island No10 on the Mississippi? Not sure how much of a fortress this actually was but it did take some substantial fire power to subdue it.