Fort Massachusetts

"Civilian workers with the U.S. Army began building the brick fort before the Civil War, but the arrival of Confederate forces forced suspension of construction in January 1861. Union forces returning nine months later found the fort’s brick walls stood only a few feet high and nowhere near completion."

Note the change in the bricks in the picture below.


















"The 15-inch Rodmans were among the largest smoothbore cannon manufactured; the barrel weighs 50,000 pounds. This type of cannon fired a 15-inch diameter cannonball weighing more than 300 pounds, with a range of approximately three miles."









View from the top, looking east.



View from the top, looking west.






Jason
7/12/08

Miscellaneous 2

Biltmore Estate



Oak Alley.



One of the oaks in the alley.



Monument overlooking Little Round Top at Gettysburg.



Headstone in Cades Cove.



Inside the Catholic church in Annunciation Parish, Louisiana.



Inside another church, somewhere in Louisiana's plantation country.




Unknown church.


Jason
All photos © 1992-2008
1/7/08

Miscellaneous

A few more.




Maryland monument at the Antietam battlefield, with an unknown monument in the background.



Gun overlooking Antietam.



Overhead shot of the "Sunken Road" or "Bloody Lane" at Antietam. Five thousand men died there in four hours.



A border collie anxiously awaits instructions from his master. This was taken at the Pecan Festival in New Augusta, MS. The dogs only responded to commands given to them in spanish.




Statue at Middleton Gardens in South Carolina.

Tulips at Callaway Gardens.

Roses, with the Biltmore Conservatory in the background.

Jason

All photos © 1992-2008
1/6/08