Glad we made the stop. A very nice Georgia campground on a very historical piece of property. Turns out that there is a fort at Fort McAllister; and a very important one during the Civil War. It protected one of the main waterways into Savannah, so that the Confederacy could obtain supplies from their European traders. The earthen fort turned out to hold up much better against poundings from the Union ships including the ironclad Montauk. In fact Fort McAllister was not captured until Sherman showed up at the end of his "March to the Sea", and the fort was finally captured after being overwhelmed by almost 5,000 Union troops.
The park allows us visitors to walk around the nicely restored grounds, checking out the cannon and gun emplacements.
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