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Cockspur Island Lighthouse seen from Tybee Island
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: April 7, 2009
Caption: Cockspur Island Lighthouse seen from Tybee Island
Additional Description: On April 10, 1862, Union forces in eleven batteries stretching along the beach at Tybee Island started a long-range bombardment of Fort Pulaski. Thirty-six guns participated in a thirty-hour siege of the fort with the Cockspur Lighthouse in direct line of fire.
Submitted: June 4, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p65910
File Size: 4.112 Megabytes

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