We’re
visiting family near Jacksonville Florida for a long July 4th
holiday. Today we toured Fort Clinch that
sits on the Atlantic Ocean. While it’s
in Florida, it is less than a mile from Georgia. 
The fort was partially built starting in
1847. During the Civil War it was held by the Confederates and then the North. This transfer was quiet. General Robert E. Lee knew they couldn’t hold
it so they withdrew. It was manned to
watch (and theoretically defend) the coast in the Spanish-American War and
World War II. In all that time it was
never finished.
While
it wasn’t finished, the park has a lot of good ‘stuff’ added to show what it
was like during the Civil War era.
The
brickwork of these forts are always cool.
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