Earthworks at Skidaway Island Park

The smaller than fortifications on Skidaway another island for men to guard this approach on the back reversed by making it difficult in this equipment and supplies. However in early 1860s to the commander of the city's defense ordered skidaway and most of the nearby islands abandoned, believing that the area was too isolated to effectively supply and defend against the Union blockade. The commander Robert E Lee left Savannah soon after the great fame with the Army of Northern Virginia.