Ok, you twisted my arm and here goes the story Mike. My Dad (being from Savannah) hunted all over that city and started working our way in to lower S.C. Following Sherman's march and hitting as many of the standing camps and small and large skirmish sites in the low country. While researching I found a reference that said " send engineers to repair works at a specific landing" We were hunting a large battle near there And convinced Dad to have check it out. Only two houses at the site, asked the owner if we could hunt his property and he said you mean " the fort" low and behold next to his house was a big earthwork fort. The deal was if you find one He gets it if you find two we each get one! Sounded fair so we went at it! I will save the good details to be told over a few beers at a show but we pouched a lifetimes worth out of that site. Here goes the variants, 100 lb schenkels, 5.1 schenkels, 30lber, with brass naval fuses, JAD's 3.4 hotchkiss etc. a super honey hole! We were digging so many shells that we piled up the frags up against a tree unless they had a fuse or were really interesting. As always word go out we took friends who took friends and the place go cleaned out. I moved on with life i.e. college grad school family etc. I was taking my family through the area about 10 years ago and wanted to show them the fort. Talked to a family member of the original who was living in his house who pointed to a trailer and a 300 pound sow grazing on what use to be a fort. Seems the family bulldozed it down so they could put the trailer on the property! I looked like that old commercial with the Indian Cheif who started crying when someone threw trash that landed at his feet! I was crying. Kids and wife asked why I was crying and I told them that those dumb asses destroyed a piece of history for a trailer! There you have it! Gary
