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Fort Sumter's original sally port, the fort's entrance, stood in the center of the three-tiered gorge rear wall. This lightly armed gorge wall was vulnerable to attack by batteries on Morris Island, and as the war progressed Union shelling reduced it to ruins. At the base of the gorge wall, some flat stone pavers still remain from the esplanade that connected the sally port to the fort's 171-foot-long granite pier.
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James Island, South Carolina · United States
