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The demi-bastion projected beyond the fort’s main wall to provide concentrated defensive fire, with a design that included two levels of artillery: guns on the parapet above and in casemates at the base of the wall below. When the fort was armed in the 1840s, however, only the guns on the upper, or barbette, level were installed. The casemates were put to other uses: company laundresses lived in two of them with their soldier husbands until better quarters were built outside the fort in 1867, while other casemates served as storerooms and one housed the sutler’s shop during the early 1860s.
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Fort Hunt, Virginia · United States
