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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: March 15, 2009
Caption: Sally Port (Entrance)
Additional Description: Facing east, the entrance is facing away from the possible assault route of Confederate forces. Access was made across the moat on a drawbridge which would be pulled up in time of an attack. The opening in the wall would be blocked by rolling saps, large wooden baskets of woven tree limbs. When the threat was over, the rolling saps would be removed and the drawbridge would be lowered.
Submitted: March 17, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p56287
File Size: 0.889 Megabytes

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