From the Fe, 9, 2011, Charleston (SC) Post and Courier.
Smoke could be seen billowing from long abandoned Castle Pinckney in Charleston Harbor which had become extremely overgrown with brush and small trees. Members of the Department of Natural Resources and students from Clemson University and the College of Charleston worked on the old fort.
Many of the college students were getting hands on learning for their preservation studies.
The fort was completed in 1809, but saw little action in the War of 1812. After South Carolina's secession, 150 state troops had seized it. In 1861, it briefly served as a prison for Union soldiers captured at the Battle of First Manassas, the it was fort for the rest of the war.
Abandoned after the war, in 1933 President Roosevelt turned it over to the National Park Service. It is currently off limits to the public.
Some comments on the article. There is a cross on the island.
As teens we used to go and dig musket balls and small cannon balls, but it got so overgrown, it was not worth it.
A little-Known Confederate Fort. --Old B-R'er
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