Fort on Grand Terre island, below New Orleans, Louisiana. Fort Pickering, Salem harbor, Massachusetts. Fort opposite Fort Delaware, Delaware Fort on Connanicut, Narraganset roads, Rhode Island. Total. SECOND CLASS. Fort at narrows of the Penobscot, Maine. Tower at Bayou Dupre, near New Orleans, Louisiana Fort on Dauphin island, mouth of Mobile bay, Alabama Fort near Provincetown, Massachusetts, fort near St. Mary's, Georgia, prin cipal fort near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and fort near Beaufort, S. C.t. Fort on Oak island, mouth of Cape Fear river, North Carolina. 50 300 70 8 12 423 119, 000 00 Fort near Plymouth, Massachusettst. Fort Griswold, near New London, Connecticut 75 830 81 5 20 936 132, 230 41 Fort on Nantasket Head, Boston harbor, Massachusetts. 130 1,550 251 29 Fort on Hawkins's Point, near Baltimore, Maryland. 120 845 109 12 326 Secondary works near Pensacola, Fla., Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S. C.t. Fort near the mouth of Kennebec river, Mainet. Fort on Naugus Head, Salem harbor, Massachusetts. Fort on Jack's Point, Marblehead harbor, Massachusetts. Fort on Cedar Point, Potomac river, Maryland+ Fort on Rose island, Narraganset roads, Rhode Island TABLE A-Classification of the proposed fortifications, &c.-Continued. Works for Mount Desert island and Sheep's Cut river, Maine* Secondary works at Portland, Maine, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and for Gloucester harbor, Massachusetts* Redoubt for Hog island, Boston harbor, Massachusetts. 30 150 15 6 241 Closing Broad Sound passage, Boston harbor, Massachusets. Reducing altitude of Gallop island, Boston harbor, Massachusetts. Works for New Bedford harbor, Massachusetts* Closing west passage of Narraganset roads, Massachusetts. Works for Stonington harbor, Connecticut, and Sag Harbor, New York* Fort Trumbull, New London harbor, Connecticut. 75 460 58 Fort Hale, New Haven harbor, Connecticut. 25 220 27 Fort Wooster, New Haven harbor, Connecticut. 25 155 8 8 240 Fort on Middle Ground, New York harbor, New York. 150 1,760 332 10 550 1, 681, 411 66 Redoubt on Federal Point, mouth of Cape Fear river, North Carolina. Works at Georgetown harbor, mouths of Santee river,‡ Bull's bay,‡ and St. Tower at Pass au Heron's, Mobile bay. Total. 16,677 41 4, 536, 984 62 Works on Barnstable bay and Buzzard's bay, to cover Cape Cod Works near mouth of Elk river, to cover Chesapeake and Delacanal. Works on Martha's Vineyard sound. Works on Delaware bay, to cover artificial harbor near Cape Henlopen. ware canal. Works on Newport News, Craney island, and Naseway shoal, to cover naval depot in Burwell's bay. Works to cover proposed new outlet of Albermarle sound. The FIRST CLASS, to be first constructed, comprising such as are most necessary for the protection of great cities, naval establishments, roads of rendez- The FOURTH CLASS comprises conditional works, the necessity for which will depend on the creation of artificial harbors, canals, great naval depots, &c. TABLE B, Containing a list of the existing works on the seaboard which it is advisable to preserve and retain as accessories to the proposed system of defence DESIGNATION OF WORKS. Fort at Wiscasset‡. Fort Preble, Portland harbor. Fort Scammel, Portland harbor.. Fort McCleary, Portsmouth harbor‡. Fort on Gloucester‡ Fort Independence, Boston harbor. Fort Warren and dependencies, Boston harbor.. Fort at New Bedford‡. Fort Wolcott, Narraganset roads. Fort Green, Narraganset roads. Fort Hale, New Haven harbor.. Fort Columbus, Governor's island, New York harbor.. Fort Lafayette, narrows of New York harbor. Fort Mifflin, Delaware river.... Fort McHenry, Baltimore harbor. REMARKS. Some of these will be modified by the new system, and some, on further examination, may have to give place to new works; these last are marked thus ‡ It is probable that several works, deserving a place in this list, have been omitted. All existing works on the coast, without exception, should be maintained until the new system is applied to the ground they occupy, or to the neighboring coast. |