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The fort had a perimeter of 429 yards and emplacements for 12 guns.<ref name=Cooling>{{cite book|first1=Benjamin Franklin |last1=Cooling III|first2=Walton H.|last2=Owen II|title=Defense Posts for the Long Bridge — Forts Albany, Runyan, and Jackson: Fort Albany|work=Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3qRIuDHJoTEC&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2010|edition=New|pages=90-92|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6307-1|lccn=2009018392|oclc=665840182|accessdate=2018-03-05|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
[[Fort Richardson (Arlington, Virginia)|Fort Richardson]], Fort Craig and [[Fort Tillinghast]] provided supporting fire for the fort.<ref name=Cooling/>
A May 17, 1864, report from the Union Inspector of Artillery noted the following:<blockquote>Fort Albany, Captain Rhodes commanding.–Garrison, one company First Massachusetts Volunteers–5 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 145 men. Armament, two 24- pounder field [[Howitzer|howitzer]]s, four 24-pounder siege, two 30-pounder [[Parrott rifle|Parrott]]s. [[Magazine (firearms)|Magazines]], two; dry and in good order. Ammunition, full supply and in good condition. Implements, complete and in good order. Drill in artillery, fair. Drill in infantry, fair. Discipline, fair. Garrison of sufficient strength.<ref>{{cite book|last=Howe|first=A.P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgApAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA888&lpg=PA888#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Operations in SE, VA. and N.C.|page=888|date=1864-05-17|work=United States Congressional Serial Set|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office]]|oclc=3888071|accessdate=2018-03-11|via=[[Google Books]]}}<ref></</blockquote>
No trace of the fort remains, although an historic marker shows the location where the fort once stood, guarding the approach to the [[Long Bridge (Potomac River)|Long Bridge]] along the [[Columbia Pike (Virginia)|Columbia Turnpike]], near the modern-day [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]].<ref name=marker>{{cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=5258|editor=Swain, Craig|title="Fort Albany" marker|work=HMdb.org: The Historical Marker Database|date=2008-02-09|accessdate=2018-03-05}}</ref>
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