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From Interpretive Marker
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: February 6, 2009
Caption: From Interpretive Marker
Additional Description: This pivot gun on the U.S. gunboat, "Pocahontas", was one of those which Captain Percival Drayton, U.S.N., used so effectively in 1861 shelling of Fort Walker, the fort commanded by his brother, General Thomas F. Drayton, C.S.A. The Draytons owned Fish Hall Plantation on Hilton Head Island, only a mile or so from the fort.
Submitted: February 26, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p54144
File Size: 0.879 Megabytes

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