America's Fortress
176 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:18 Oct 2022
ISBN:9780813080048
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America's Fortress

A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida

University Press of Florida

The architectural, military, environmental, and political history of a little-known Civil War outpost that was the most heavily armed coastal defense fort in United States history.

Thomas Reid (1947-2020) was lecturer in American history at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He is the author of Spartan Band: Burnett’s 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War and articles about the military history of the American Civil War.

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