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To: Shooter 2.5

Sumter looks very little like it did in 1861-63. The military constructed a more modern coastal defense battery on the site for WW I and WW II; the huge black metal casemates for those guns are also still there, so you have an odd mixture of the ruins of the WBTS fort interspersed with hardware eighty years more modern.

]:-)4


15 posted on 08/19/2008 9:43:41 AM PDT by Moose4 (http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
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To: Moose4
The military constructed a more modern coastal defense battery on the site for WW I and WW II;

Battery Huger was built for the Spanish-American War.

18 posted on 08/20/2008 6:28:50 AM PDT by thulldud (Heteronormative since the first trimester.)
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