intersting stuff - up the girls! The Union troops defending Charleston Harbor’s Fort Moultrie before the war were so understaffed that their wives sometimes took turns on patrol. (Fort Moultrie was abandoned quickly during the Secession Crisis for the more defendable Fort Sumter, which is why Sumter is the name everyone remembers.)

intersting stuff - up the girls! The Union troops defending Charleston Harbor’s Fort Moultrie before the war were so understaffed that their wives sometimes took turns on patrol. (Fort Moultrie was abandoned quickly during the Secession Crisis for the more defendable Fort Sumter, which is why Sumter is the name everyone remembers.)

(Source: , via historical-nonfiction)