Keywords: (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War..., edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) "Castle Pinckney was a small fort on the southern extremity of Shute's Folly Island, in Charleston harbor, S. C. Though it was not in itself formidable it gave it great local importance, as it commanded the whole line of the eastern wharves. It had two rows of guns, the lower being in bombproof casemates, the embrasures for which were about seven feet above low-water mark, and the upper being en barbette. The armament of the Castle consisted of about five pieces, 24- and 32-pounders, a few seacoast mortars and six columbiads." (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated History of the Civil War..., edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) "Castle Pinckney was a small fort on the southern extremity of Shute's Folly Island, in Charleston harbor, S. C. Though it was not in itself formidable it gave it great local importance, as it commanded the whole line of the eastern wharves. It had two rows of guns, the lower being in bombproof casemates, the embrasures for which were about seven feet above low-water mark, and the upper being en barbette. The armament of the Castle consisted of about five pieces, 24- and 32-pounders, a few seacoast mortars and six columbiads." |