I wrote about improvements to be made at this fort in my last post.
From Wikipedia.
A former harbor defense facility designed by U.S. Army Chief Engineer Joseph Gilbert Totten and located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River.
During the Civil War, it was used as a prison for Confederate prisoners of war, political prisoners, federal convicts and privateer officers.
In the 1890s, a three-gun concrete battery of 12-inch guns named Battery Torbert was erected in the fort. By 1900, the fort was a part of a three-fort concept, the first forts of the Coast Defenses of Delaware, working in conjunction with Fort Mott in Pennsville, New Jersey, and Fort DuPont in Delaware City, Delaware.
--Old Secesh
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