Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-19

VINO Cled June ", lsb2, OF wounds received at
the bombardmont effort Donelson. Tenn. Feb
ruary, IL, 1862 Company b. Maine Coast
Guard and second company New Hampshire
heavy artillery garrisoned the fort at different
times in S64. The site of the fort Was known -
RoZier's Bluff before the war. The earthworks
are now in about the same condition they were
IN wartime, detail of soldiers always being
present TO guard and protect them.
An account of Fort franklin ia given in con-
nection with that of Fort Sumner.
Fort Gaines was built by the Pennsylvania
Reserves in 1861 and was originally intended
to be lunette. lts armament consisted of five
2-pounder seacoast guns and one Az inch ritied
gun. Among the troops that garrisoned this
fort were attachments first New Hampshire
heavy artillery, one hundred and sixty third
and one hundred and SEVENTEEN Ohio national
guard. fifty-ninth New York and fourth New
York heavy artillery. A part of the old work
is yet preserved, which will be found on the
Lougbcrough road, q quarter of a mile west of
the Ienleytown road. The fort was built on
the Davis place, and the old family mansion,
which was in the rear and still stands, was
used by the offers rs headquarters The prop
erry is now a part of the tract recently pur-
chased for the site of the Methodist Uniyer-
sity, and 1t is probable that what is left OF the
old fort will be preserved for all time The
old works reached by way of George
town and Wisconsin avenue and Loug borouGh
road. The electric cars run within quarter
of mile of them. Forts Reno, Bayard, Sim
mons and Mansfield and Battery Kemble were
in the immediate vicinity.
Battery Garesche is described in connection
with Fort Reynolds.
Fort Greble was q powerful work well sup
piled with magazines and bomb proofs. It oc-
cupied the extremity of the plateau, overlook
ing the Potomac, that ended somewhat
abruptly at the mouth of Oxon run. 1t stood
on the premises Of Lucius Barry, but the place
now belongs to Mr.. james Beyer and quite a
of hn rGc
in the midst OF the outhouses and gardens A
neat summer house now graces the spot once &C.
cupied by the fort lookout The fort mounted
seventeen guns Of various kinds and calibers
one of them being a 30-pounder rifed Par
rott 1t was garrisoned at different times in
1862 by companies b and T, fourth New York
heavy artillery, and company A, seventeenth
Maine infantry, and these troops did consider
able toward completing the works. Capt
Worcester's seventh company Massachusetts
heavy artillery was here in May, 1894 The fort
was named by a general order of the War
Department in honor of Lieut. John I. Greble,
native of Philadelphia, one Of the first sacri-
fees of the war, who was killed in the badly
managed movement on Big Bethel, Va, July TO-
1861. The great cavalry rendezvous, known
during the war as Camp Stineman," was near
here on the Livingston road TO the eastward.
Fort Hacgerty, a small work, was situated q
short distance south Of the Virginia end of the
AquedUct bridge, near the bed of the old canal
portion Of the old works are yet visible. Its
armament consisted of four A-pounder smooth
bores. mounted On barbette carriages 1t was
named after Lieut.. Col James Haggerty of
the sixty-ninth New York Irish regiment, who
died of wounds received at the First Bull Run,
where he rendered distinguished service.
FORT JACKSON.
The tete-de-pon at the south end of the
Long bridge, named by courtesy Fort jackson,
xr,s aarlv copc@r,cxad nv tba .oro,.h ~
York and Runyon's Jerseymen, under the
direction OF Capt. B. S. Alexander, corps Of
engineers, z. S. A. No remnant of the fort is
visible today, but il stood close by the river
side. Heavy pickots and picket gates crossed
the pike and railroad. The fort mounted four
guns, which were manned by sixty gunners.
The fort was occupied at various times by de-
tachments OF the thirteenth and fourteenth
New Hampshire, fourteenth Massachusetts.
seventh, twenty-frst and one hundred and
seventy-eighth New York and Veteran Reserve
Corps.
BATTERY JAMESON.
This powerful battery was situated on bluff
overlooking the Anacostia, about forty rods
east of Fort Lincoln. The old work is in a fair
state Of preservation. wire fence running
through it separates the Boyle and Arlington
properties. The rife pits, which extended
west to Fort Lincoln and east and south to the
Anacostia, still standing. The old works
arc just outside the District line, and are
reached from the Baltimore pike by way Of a
byroad which is taken near the eastern side of
the reform school grounds. large tract of
land in this vicinity including what is left
of Fort Lincoln and Battery Jameson has been
bought by syndicate and laid out into a villa
site called Fort Lincoln Heights"
Fort Kearny stood little north Of Grant
road a mile east of Tenleytown. The old works
are now covered with scrub pine and are not
visible from any direction. They are immedi-
ately in the rear of Mr.. Thomas O'Brien's large
mansard rooted frame building. The fort was
named in honor OF that splendid soldier. Gen
Philip Kearny, who was killed at Chantilly. Va.
September !. 1862. The fort was built in the
summer of 1852 by Col. Fowler's fifteenth Kew
Jersey. Its armament consisted of one eight