Check out a wonderful video from Monuments Across Dixie, showing Fort McDermott, near Mobile, Alabama, and the beautiful statue that calls it home.
A comment on the video provides some more details about the fort:
“This confederate fortification was established in 1864 as a part of the Spanish Fort Complex along with Spanish Fort. The fortifications were connected by a two mile line of earthworks, redoubts, rifle pits and gun batteries.A Union attack on the fortifications began on 27 Mar 1865 and lasted for 13 days. The Union troops numbered about 30,000 against some 2,500 Confederate troops. The fortifications were abandoned by the confederate defenders on the night of 8-9 Apr 1865. Most of the Confederate troops fled across the river and toward Fort Blakeley and when Union troops stormed the fortifications on the 9th they found empty positions and spiked guns. The War between the States effectively ended on that same day with General Robert E. Lee surrendering at Appomattox Court House around 4 pm. The battle at Spanish Fort shifted to the Battle at Fort Blakeley later that day.In the last few years, the Admiral Semmes Camp has acquired the land upon which the main fort was built. The site was opened with a Confederate ceremony on April 11, 2015. It is now available for functions through the Camp.”