Ft Pulaski Prison - GA - Retired Prisons on Waymarking.com

'Our new ration of corn meal (sour), pickles, and seventy-five loaves of bread went into effect yesterday, and a terrible diet it is. That it will kill some is evident.'
from the diary of Captain H Dickinson

Captain Dickson and over five hundred of his fellow Confederate Officers were imprisoned here from October, 1864 to March 1865. The prison included all of the casemates in the southeast and south galleries.
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Fort Pulaski National Monument
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The garrison of Union soldiers reached 600 during the initial occupation, but as the War dragged on it became obvious the Southern forces would not be able to retake the Fort. The garrison was later reduced to around 250. Late in the War the Fort would be made into a prison for a group of captured Confederate officers known as "The Immortal Six Hundred." Thirteen of these men would die at the Fort of enforced ill treatment. After the War ended Fort Pulaski continued as a military and political prison for a short while. It would house a Confederate Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Assistant Secretary of War as well as three state governors, a senator and the man who had commanded the Fort after it had been taken by the South.

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Address: GA Open to the public: Yes Hours: daylight Fees?: $3 Web link: Not listed

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