Fort Jackson

The fighting here in April 1862 was mostly a bombardment. Porter's mortar schooners opened on April 18 and fired for days, an estimated 7,500 shells in all. Union gunboats broke the chain across the river on April 20, and Farragut's fleet ran past the Confederate garrison at 2 a.m. on April 24. Flooded, sick and short of supplies, the garrison mutinied and forced a surrender about April 28. Union forces later held prisoners here. In 1964 Leander Perez wired Fort St. Philip across the river and threatened to jail civil rights workers there; no one was held.

Where it stands

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