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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> |
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> |
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[[Fort Richardson (Arlington, Virginia)|Fort Richardson]], Fort Craig and [[Fort Tillinghast]] provided supporting fire for the fort.<ref name=Cooling/> |
[[Fort Richardson (Arlington, Virginia)|Fort Richardson]], Fort Craig and [[Fort Tillinghast]] provided supporting fire for the fort.<ref name=Cooling/> |
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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> |
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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> |
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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Revision as of 19:52, 12 March 2018
| Fort Albany | |
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| Arlington, Virginia | |
  Fort Albany | |
| Coordinates | 38°51′54″N 77°03′58″W / 38.864917°N 77.066167°W |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1861 |
Fort Albany was a bastioned earthwork that the Union Army built in Arlington County (known at the time as Alexandria County) in Virginia. The Army constructed the fort during May 1861 as part of its Civil War defenses of Washington (see Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War).[1]
The fort had a perimeter of 429 yards and emplacements for 12 guns.[1] Fort Richardson, Fort Craig and Fort Tillinghast provided supporting fire for the fort.[1]
A May 17, 1864, report from the Union Inspector of Artillery noted the following:
Fort Albany, Captain Rhodes commanding.–Garrison, one company First Massachusetts Volunteers–5 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 145 men. Armament, two 24- pounder field howitzers, four 24-pounder siege, two 30-pounder Parrotts. 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.Cite error: A
<ref>tag is missing the closing</ref>(see the help page).The ground on which the Fort stood was cut away during the construction of the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway, in 1942.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Cooling III, Benjamin Franklin; Owen II, Walton H. (2010). Defense Posts for the Long Bridge — Forts Albany, Runyan, and Jackson: Fort Albany (New ed.). Scarecrow Press. pp. 90–92. ISBN 978-0-8108-6307-1. LCCN 2009018392. OCLC 665840182. Retrieved 2018-03-05 – via Google Books.
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