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Guardian of Savannah : Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and beyond / Roger S. Durham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durham, Roger S.
- Series:
- Studies in maritime history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic preservation.
- Fortification--Conservation and restoration.
- Fortification.
- Fort McAllister (Ga. : Fort)--History.
- Fort McAllister (Ga. : Fort).
- Savannah (Ga.)--History--Siege, 1864.
- Savannah (Ga.).
- Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Georgia.
- History.
- Fortification--Conservation and restoration--Georgia--Bryan County.
- Historic preservation--Georgia--Bryan County.
- Georgia--Bryan County.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- A time of change
- Baptism by fire
- Sand and grit
- The noise rolls like distant thunder
- Tangled machinery and charred relics
- A terrible storm of iron
- Lessons lost and lessons learned
- A post of honor
- A time of reckoning
- A perfect chaos
- The victors and the vanquished
- A final analysis
- Appendix 1. An analysis of Fort McAllister's evolution
- Appendix 2. An analysis of the Fort McAllister photographs taken by Samuel Cooley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781570037429
- 1570037426
- OCLC:
- 185031349
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