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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: February 6, 2009
Caption:
additional Fort Walker 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: April 16, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p59543
File Size: 0.178 Megabytes
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