Speakers: W. Clifford Roberts Jr. & Matthew A. M. Locke

HOLDING CHARLESTON BY THE BRIDLE: Castle Pinckney & the Civil War

Holding Charleston by the Bridle is the first book on the subject, from the fort’s innovative design as part of America’s “Second System” of coastal fortifications to the modern challenges of preserving its weathered brick walls against rising sea levels. Defending the fort was one of Winfield Scott’s major concerns during the Nullification Crisis of 1832. In 1860, Major Robert Anderson knew the fort was the key to protecting his small Federal garrison at Fort Moultrie, but his requests to Washington for troops to hold the Castle went unheeded. That December, three companies of Charleston militia scaled and seized the fort in a daring act that pushed the nation to the edge of civil war.

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