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William Lamb took command on July 4, 1862. For two years, more than 1,000 soldiers, slaves, and free blacks worked six days a week expanding the fort. By 1865, the landface showed the results of Lamb’s work, with elevated gun batteries built between mounds of earth. Lamb was a newspaper editor rather than an engineer, but he had read about Russian sand forts of the Crimean War.
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