Tour de Fort

From Savannah we headed down the Atlantic coast.  Our first stop was at Fort Pulaski where, due to the soggy and cold weather, we had our own personal tour of the fort.  The planning phase of construction for Fort Pulaski began under the instruction of General Lee but he left prior to any work on the fort began.  It took so long to build the fort that by the time it saw any action during the Civil War that the walls were easily destroyed by Union forces.  Going back in time, our next stop was at Fort Fredrica.  Built by the British to protect the "debatable land" between Georgia and Spanish controlled Florida, Oglethorpe's men were able to protect it when the Spanish attacked (mainly due to the fact that the Spanish couldn't see what was really going on through the gun smoke).  At Castillo de San Marcos we toured the Fort where the Spanish had launched their attack on Fort Fredrica.  Oglethorpe had attacked this fort with a 50 day siege that did very minimal damage to the fort.