Fort Moultrie
Fort Moultrie, a former fort on Sullivan's Island in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Patriots stationed inside the hastily built fort in 1776 helped to repel a British invasion of Charleston. The fort, built of palmetto logs, was named for its commander, William Moultrie. It fell to the British in 1780, but was recaptured.
Edgar Allan Poe was stationed here during 1827–28, and he used the island as the setting for The Gold Bug. When South Carolina seceded from the Union in December, 1860, Major Robert Anderson moved his small Union garrison from Fort Moultrie to nearby Fort Sumter, which was less difficult to defend. Fort Moultrie was part of a formidable group of defenses that turned back the attack of a fleet of Union ironclads in 1863. The fort is now a museum and is part of Fort Sumter National Monument.
picture titled Defense of Fort Moultrie, S.C.