The late afternoon is the perfect time to visit Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island in between Savannah and Tybee Island. The shadows are long which somehow makes this marvelous edifice more imposing… couple that with the fact that at this time of year, at that time of day, there were very few people here exploring. Imposing, eerie… it fits.
The fort marked a turning point in military tactics. It looks so impressive, but it wasn’t strong under fire… the advent of the rifle barreled cannon whose accuracy and power across distance rendered its fortifications virtually useless… Fort Pulsaki with its 11ft walls was thought to be impentratable… it was not, under these new fangled guns…
Let’s just call it the Titanic of the Southern War effort and leave it at that…
