Fort Craig

During the winter of 1861-1862, the original earthworks of Fort Craig were built as the Confederate army approached from the south and the fort braced for attack. In 2014, the Bureau of Land Management reconstructed a portion of those historic earthworks in honor of the soldiers who built and defended the fort, using modern materials and dimensions based on historic photographs, blueprints, and cross-sections found in national and state archives. The work was intended to convey the magnitude of the fortifications and the labor required to build them. A historic plan documented bastion construction, and photographs from the 1800s show that the already formidable bastion's effective height was doubled by the dry moat surrounding it.

New Mexico · United States