Documents for the Charleston CDSG Conference in 2021
CDSG Documents for the Modern-era defenses of Savannah, Georgia and St. John’s River, Florida (RCBs, RCWs, maps, Quartermaster building records, battery construction correspondence files, Engineer notebook, aerial photos) zip file 537 MB, click link to download zip file.
FORT SCREVEN / Tybee Island /1897-(1928) /private /MD, MC /KKK
Habersham/8/12″/M/1900-1928/
Garland/1/12″/BC/1899-1920/now a museum
Fenwick/1/12″/BC/1898-1920/built on
Brumby/4/ 8″/DC/1899-1917/built on (#3 intact)
Backus/1/ 6″/A/1899-1920/later rearmed with 4.7-in
&/2/4.7″/A/1899-1920/built on
Gantt/2/ 3″/MP/1904-1920
Fort Pulaski / Cockspur Is. / National Historic Monument /KK
unnamed/1/ 8″/Rod/1898-1899/buried
Hambright/2/ 3″/MP/1903 NA/
Other location / ?
unnamed/2/4.7″/A/1898-1899/Wassaw Island, guns to Screven, part. dest.
The Harbor Defenses of Jacksonville / KK
unnamed/ 2-8″/ Rod/ 1898-1899/ St. John’s Bluff
unnamed/ 2-3.2″/Field Mount/ 1917-1919/ Mayport
unnamed/ 4-155mm/ PM/ 1942-1944/ Mayport
St. Mary’s River / ?
unnamed/ 1-8″/ Rod/ 1898-1900/ Fort Clinch
Temporary Harbor Defenses of Fort Lauderdale / ?
unnamed/ 4-155mm/ PM/ 1942-1944
Temporary Harbor Defenses of Miami Beach / ?
unnamed/ 4-155mm/ PM/ 1942-1944
Savannah, GA: 1921 Maps PDF (215K) 6 pages $0.30
