Fort Albany (Arlington, Virginia)
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| Fort Albany | |
|---|---|
| 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 built by the Union Army in Arlington County (then still known as Alexandria County) in Virginia.
Construction
Fort Albany was built during May 1861 as part of the 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 and Fort Craig which were respectively 1300 yards to the west and 1300 yards to the north later augmented the fort's defenses.
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 along the Columbia Turnpike, near the modern-day Pentagon.[2] 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 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.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Swain, Craig, ed. (2008-02-09). ""Fort Albany" marker". HMdb.org: The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
