Fort DuPont

<br><i>Panel 1</i>:<br><center><b>Civil War Defenses of Washington<br>Fort DuPont</b><br>This small work was one of the defenses begun in the fall of 1861 on the ridge east of the Anacostia River. It was named after Admiral Samuel DuPont, a commander of the South Atlantic Blockade Squadron. Eight guns and one mortar comprised its armament. <br><br> United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Capital Parks - Presented by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the District of Columbia, 1955</center><br><br> <i>Panel 2</i>:<br><center>... Earthworks of Fort DuPont are visible; follow path to the entrance of the park. ...<br> [Rendering of] Fort DuPont from a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing.<br> Fort DuPont was named after <b>Rear Admiral Francis Pierpoint DuPont</b>, a Union naval hero of the early years of the Civil War.<br>[Map of] Other Civil War fort locations administered by the National Park Service.<br><br>During the Civil War, Washington's forts overlooked farm land. [Background photograph of Union artillerymen at unidentified site in the Civil War Defenses of Washington.]</center>