Fort Gaines & its amazing Civil War Museum: You Gotta See This Place

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If you like Civil War history you need to see this place.
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@melodymakermark 2 года назад

When I was a kid in the 1960’s and ‘70’s, there were no rails for protection anywhere. You could walk across the outer walls of the fort or pretty much anywhere at your own risk. One night in probably around 1969, myself and two friends were there staying in the campground with our parents, and we rode our bikes up to the fort after dark. The fort was closed for the day and the iron gates at the entrance were shut, so we sat just outside the gates and smoked a few cigarettes that we’d pilfered from our parents. Some movement caught our eyes down the tunnel toward the gift shop entrance and the three of us stared for a moment in shock and fear at what we were looking at; a confederate soldier standing outside the gift shop looking back up the tunnel toward us. You never saw in your lives three kids get on their Schwinn StingRay’s and peddle the hell outa there so fast, lol. I believe back in those days that the fort manager had an apartment above the gift shop, but I’m still not convinced we hadn’t aroused a confederate ghost.

@Gravelgratious 4 года назад

My 3xtimes Great Grandfather took part in the operations there from August 1864 to Feburary,1865. After which his unit was sent to Alabame to fight in the Mobile Campaign at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, Alabama.

@jakelewis8133 3 года назад

So was mine. Mine was federal cavalry

@spermdonar 4 года назад

Lots of history in there ..take all week to see everything seems like..those old guns are interesting

@artofbrowneyedgirl 4 года назад

your fort tours always remind me of the fort here in St. Augustine.

@1954real 3 года назад

Very Good Video Enjoyed x

@oldveteran8931 4 года назад

I have built a lot of arches in my time as a brick Mason. The way I done it was to use wood trimmed to the shape of the arches. Great video keep them coming, love watching them.

@mike2400 4 года назад

Very interesting video. thank you.

@wescloxmusic1900 4 года назад

You missed the blacksmithing shop!! I love that place.

@MNpicker 4 года назад

Very impressive engineering in that place😎👍🏼

@cindycsikasz6093 4 года назад

That Fort was massive!!! Really enjoyed seeing it.

@sharonbeckett721 4 года назад

So much military history, amazing to see. If ever you get the chance to come to England you must visit Dover Castle, building started 10th century and as it is built on a cliff overlooking the coast to France it was a very important military building. You would love it E. A. Great video!

@melodymakermark 2 года назад

My wife and I live in Memphis, TN, USA, and are nearing retirement. We are so ready to do part of Europe, starting with the British Isles. From there, across the northern Med until we reach Israel. I’m stoked at the prospect. I want to stand in the spot Lord Nelson fell and died.

@keithmaxwell2169 4 года назад

You need to go see Ft.Moultrie in SOUTH CAROLINA

@nelliesfarm8473 4 года назад

I'm still rather new to Bama, didn't know about this place...im a civil war buff so I'll be trying to go.,thanks

@ExploringAlabama 4 года назад

Welcome. Subscribe and hang around. We'll be back in the water for relics in the summer

@royb.turner1445 4 года назад

been there

@beckysweeps9748 4 года назад

Been there. Such a cool place!

@fontaineyah 4 года назад

How have you not done the Voices of Alabama exhibit in Montgomery ? When you do stop for a Chris' hot dog

@randywilkerson4874 4 года назад

So I picked up a golf ball by the tracks today. I figure if we ever walk a creek together I'll get in front of you and drop them here and there

@michellephoenix8183 4 года назад

Awesome EA, thanks for taking us with you. I am just trying to imagine what it as like when that place was “ working” . As the old saying goes “ if those walls could talk”.

@bobbiehoward2739 4 года назад

Thank you for taking us along in your journeys !

@theupstateangler 4 года назад

That was an awesome tour...! Thanks for doing that..!!!

@damizia 4 года назад

That's some impressive brick work. Thanks for the tour.

@jacqualynjohnson6203 4 года назад

Another great adventure! Thanks for taking us along.

@whitleyrj 4 года назад

Thank you for the tour! Very interesting.

@tweet-tweettweety9704 4 года назад

Thank you for the tour! I took my parents to see Fort Morgan in 1989, but it was closed. Had I known how to get to Fort Gaines, I would have taken them there.

@marydegenkolb9603 4 года назад

The arches are built prior to the soil being placed on top. Wooden Cribbing is built in the arches and bricks are laid. Then the cribbing is removed and finish work is done to neaten up the inside. Once all the stone is dry, the soil is placed on top as impact protection. And it was all slave labor. I don't remember if this is the fort with the blood stains on the granite steps up to a gun deck. It was supposed a famous general who was injured and taken down to the infirmary.