Word: pulaski
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Harbor, the base on which stands the Statue of Liberty; 2) Castle Pinckney on Shutes' Folly Island, a mile from Charleston, S.C., close to Fort Sumter and close to the spot where the first vessel was ever sunk by a submarine (in the Civil War) ; 3) Fort Pulaski, Ga., at the entrance of the Savannah River, taken during the Civil War by Union troops after being pounded to pieces by some of the first rifled cannon ever made. It is on the site of Fort Greene (of the Revolution) ; 4) Fort Marion at St. Augustine, Fla., "the only intact...
...name of Robert Shurtleff, served for two and a half years in the Revolutionary War, was wounded at Tarrytown and present when Cornwallis surrendered. The other, whose surname was Hodgers and first name remains unknown, went through the Civil War in the 95th Illinois Infantry, served at Vicksburg, Franklin, Pulaski, Lawrenceburg and other battlefields. Later she was pensioned and became an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois. Her sex was discovered when she was hurt in an automobile accident...