wiener dogs in confederate country....

we are hanging at Fort McAllister State Park, yes the Fort McAllister as in "General Sherman's great march to the sea", as in civil war type stuff...yeah, that Fort McAllister.  it is on record as being one of the best preserved Confederate earthwork fortifications still remaining from the civil war.

On January 19, 1861, Georgia declared that it had seceded from the United States and joined the newly formed Confederacy the next month, during the prelude to the American Civil War. During the war, Georgia sent nearly 100,000 men to battle, mostly to the Virginian armies. The state switched from cotton to food production, but severe transportation difficulties eventually restricted supplies. Early in the war, the state's 1,400 miles of railroad tracks provided a frequently used means of moving supplies and men but, by the middle of 1864, much of these lay in ruins or in Union hands.

it's rained almost every day since we arrived in Georgia, but there was a long enough dry spell yesterday, so we went and checked out the ruins.

the park was cool cause pups were allowed and we could actually check out the inside of the mounds. this super sized brick oven below, was used for heating shot, that went into canons that would set the receiving ship on fire when it hit!  Polly was being such a spaz, mom started calling it the "puppy pizza oven"....i like pizza!

the large spiky things, used to keep the Union Army out...extremely intimidating at over 8 feet long!

here's some arsty-fartsy shots of inside the mounds...it was cool place to check out and it is wiener approved!