Fort Pulaski Historic Structure Report, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Chatham County, Georgia
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. 330 Pfingsten Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062. 2014. Fort Pulaski Historic Structure Report, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Chatham County, Georgia. National Park Service. Atlanta, GA
At the request of the National Park Service (NPS), Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. (WJE) has developed this Historic Structure Report (HSR) for Fort Pulaski National Monument on Cockspur Island, near Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia. Fort Pulaski is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the best preserved and most original of a system of eastern coastal forts designed by the French military engineer Simon Bernard while in the employment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Fort Pulaski complex is significant in the areas of architecture, engineering, and military history. Specifically, Fort Pulaski is noteworthy for the fact that its construction, designed to resist cannon fire, rapidly failed when under attack by rifled artillery—an event that signaled the beginning of a new approach to fortification architecture and construction.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. 330 Pfingsten Road Northbrook, Illinois 60062
- Date of Issue
- 2014-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- FOPU
- Keywords
- Civil War, coastal defenses, demilune, Fort Pulaski, Historic Structure Report, Simon Bernard, terreplein