Sunday, February 15, 2015

Earthen Confederate fortifications hide in plain sight

Via Robert

Kevin Byrd steps carefully around the base of Fort Bull, an earthen mound that was a Confederate defensive site in West Ashley. It extends across the left side of the photo.

The earth mounds can turn up anywhere in the Lowcountry, it seems — odd-shaped crowns or crooked rows, a little too large and too strange to be natural.
They are haunts of the past.
 
Kevin Byrd was a kid playing in the West Ashley woods near the Ashley River when he came upon the first one to catch his eye, a circle of humps twice as tall as a man. He knew it was something but had no idea what. Even as an adult he keeps looking for it when driving past. He’s now 54 years old.

2 comments:

  1. Cool! I've seen the Indian mounds but have never heard of Confederate mounds.
    Thanks.

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