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To command Maryland Heights' highest point, Federal forces built the massive Stone Fort foundation in the winter of 1862-63. Union engineers designed it as an infantry blockhouse to defend against Confederate attack along the crest, but although the foundation was completed, no superstructure was ever built. By September, 1863, the Union garrison had turned the Stone Fort into a commissary and storage area. During an inspection by Brig. Gen. Max Weber in April 1864, it was described as "surrounded with a wall of solid stone, containing rations for five thousand men, [and] only covered with boards," a practical but unfitting use for the imposing structure.
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