Fort DuPont
Civil War Defenses of Washington
Panel 1:
Civil War Defenses of Washington
Fort DuPont
This small work was one of the defenses begun in the fall of 1861 on the ridge east of the Anacostia River. It was named after Admiral Samuel DuPont, a commander of the South Atlantic Blockade Squadron. Eight guns and one mortar comprised its armament.
United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Capital Parks - Presented by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the District of Columbia, 1955
Panel 2:
... Earthworks of Fort DuPont are visible; follow path to the entrance of the park. ...
[Rendering of] Fort DuPont from a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing.
Fort DuPont was named after Rear Admiral Francis Pierpoint DuPont, a Union naval hero of the early years of the Civil War.
[Map of] Other Civil War fort locations administered by the National Park Service.
During the Civil War, Washington's forts overlooked farm land. [Background photograph of Union artillerymen at unidentified site in the Civil War Defenses of Washington.]
Marker can be reached from Alabama Avenue, NE east of Massachusetts Avenue, NE.
Courtesy hmdb.org
