Time to wrap up my posting about the Charleston trip I took last month. The last day of which we spent visiting Fort Sumter, the place that started the Civil War (as detailed in Madness Rules the Hour).
I’d had no idea Sumter was an island, though I must have read it somewhere. Tracy, Craig and I got on a ferry and headed out across the bay.
Sumter includes Battery Huger, a newer black structure built during the Spanish American War.
The battery is in much better shape than Sumter’s walls.
A few spots have shells embedded in the walls. They’re marked by the threads.
The ring around the flagpole marks the height of the walls before the Union bombardment leveled it (obviously after the Confederates had seized it).
There are cannon still in place.
And a great view from atop the Battery.
The next day I headed home to TYG and our pets. It was a great trip — hopefully we’ll do another before too long.
