Fort at Salisbury Point
The Fort at Salisbury Point was a fort that existed between 1863 and 1865 in Salisbury, Massachusetts. It was a nine-gun earthwork located at the mouth of the Merrimack River, where eventual erosion washed it away.[1] A 1903 reference states it was on the site of the Revolutionary War Fort Nichols, but that site is in doubt.[2] The Fort at Salisbury Point was designed and built under the supervision of Major Charles E. Blunt of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.[3] From November 1864 to June 1865 it was garrisoned by the 20th Unattached Company of Massachusetts militia.[4]
References
- "Massachusetts". American Forts Network. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- Heitman, Francis B. (1994) [1903]. Historical Register And Dictionary Of The United States Army: 1789-1903, vol. 2 (Reprint. ed.). Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co. pp. 528, 541. ISBN 080631401X.
- Manuel, p. 49
- Unattached Companies Massachusetts Vol Militia at CivilWarArchive.com, from Dyer's Compendium
- Manuel, Dale A. (Summer 2019). "Massachusetts North Shore Civil War Forts". Coast Defense Journal. Vol. 33 no. 3. Mclean, Virginia: CDSG Press.
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