After the beach we headed to Fort Pulaski National Monument, it is an old fort that has been reconstructed. It is located on Cockspur Island close to Tybee Island. We arrived just in time to see the musket firing demonstration.

The fort was built before the Civil War using 25 million bricks. The fort was held by the Confederates, but over two days the Union was able to breach the wall using new rifled cannons to compel a surrender by the Confederates. That was the end of brick forts.

You are allow to explore the fort.

There are good views from the top of the fort.

What the cannons would have looked like back in in 1862.

As you can see there is not much to keep you falling off the one side of the parapet.

Some of the forts architecture.

Part of the fort was converted into a prison for the Confederate officers known as “The Immortal Six Hundred.”

Looking out to the parade ground.

The girls decided they would climb inside this barrel.

They left part of the fort unfinished so you could see what it looked like under the floors.

Gillian photo bombing the picture.

Inside the solitary confinement.

There were a lot of neat nooks and crannies in the fort.

The front entrance.

The demilune is a huge triangular piece of land that is bordered on all sides by the moat and protected the rear or gouge wall of the fort. Their are large earthen mounds, built after the war, that overlay four powder magazines and passageways to several gun emplacements.  You can walk inside the demilune.

I walked around the outside of the fort.

Some of the original cannon damage.

There may be alligators in the moat.