[Ditto]

Make up your mind. In one post, you admit that the magazine damn near exploded and in the very next you claim that the fort was too strong to damage.

Pick one or the other.

[TexConfederate1861]

You misunderstood....

The casemates were the only part of the fort that has survived both Confederate & Union Bombardments.

If the Magazine HAD exploded, which it almost did, those casemates, and all in them would have been history. (no pun intended :))