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Finally in my home town. Fort Pickens at Pensacola beach is one of my favorite places. I’ve caught some giant fish off of fort Morgan and fort Gaines Over the years.
One of the most incredible stories of this battle was getting the CSS Tennessee down from the Selma, Alabama Naval foundry....now that took an incredible effort,
Lots of childhood memories from the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. Twice each summer my dad loaded up the Airstream and hauled the family down there from Tennessee. There used to be a sea shell shop on east of the fort where the road dead ends. Lying in bed at 2:00 am and hearing the pilot boats fire up those diesels to escort ships into the bay. The coast guard cutter stationed there was the Point Verde, which was later sold to Venezuela, I believe. Two old shrimp boats of the Forrest Gump class, the Lucky Jack and Jamie Marie, would come in just before dark with the days catch. We used to buy hand sized gulf shrimp right off the boat for about $1.50/pound and would combine those with the blue crabs we netted from the boat dock piers. Just a great place to grow up.
I just love this guys passion for his country’s history. He has kept me transfixed to everything he has put out. I now know more of the USA than I do of my “old Blighty.” Keep it coming please. 🇬🇧⚓️🇬🇧
Thanks so much for the wonderful video! As a housewife and lover of kitchen history, I was thrilled when you showed us the bakery! Also, it looks like the large pot/pan in said bakery was probably a modified bread trough. I would imagine that it started out as a "copper", typically a large copper or iron vessel used for various things such as boiling/pickling food as well as boiling laundry. Interesting side note on the bread: in that type of oven, the bottom of the bread was often still a little ashy. So the bread was cut horizontally and formed the lower crust and upper crust. The wealthy, or in this case the officers, would eat the upper crust and everyone else ate the lower crust. Thus the origin of the term "upper crust". Thank you again for all the hard work you put into these videos! They are truly wonderful!!!
I used to re enact there with the 21st Alabama, co D. Infantry. They were there from the beginning, going to Tennessee to fight in the early battles including Shiloh. Then back to mobile. 21st Alabama were infantry but wore red kepis as they manned the artillery at the fort. They also manned the CS Huntley submarine. It brought tears to my eyes when the hunley was found including George dixon’s gold coin that saved his life at the battle of Shiloh in 1861. Some of the best times, Christmas at the Fort. At that time we were able to use the blacksmith shop and kitchens. We ate period foods followed by a spirited period dance with an authentic period band!!!!
Growing up we would water ski down the Tombigbee River into Mobile Bay and spend the night at the Ramada Inn on the causeway. We would get up the next day and water ski through the bay and back up the river. In those days the moth balled WWII ships were still in the North end of the bay. It was always an eerie feeling passing those ships.
You on Holiday brother, MY God thank you, you even still bring us the best stuff when you're meant to be resting ..... I guess you're not getting an R&R ..I used to work for English heritage. They run and look after British sites of history..I used to work at few forts..They are amazing places. full of battles and deaths..THe sites are just amazing as is this one your bring to us right now
I have loved your videos for a while now. I am finishing up a geneological project for my history degree and found out that two of my ancestors (a father and son pair) were stationed at Fort Gaines and were captured there. Your video was a great tool for me to visualize what their life might have been like inside the fort. Thank you JD!
Thank you for another great history lesson, I have just recently caught up from the beginning of all your videos. If it wasn't for you and the videos of Easy Company I wouldn't have watched Band of Brothers afterward. Knowing the history first before watching was really awesome for me. Once again thank you for all you do to help everybody with our history.
That was a perfect day at the Beach. It often hurts when you see how time has overrun the past, but your explorations help bring the realization that time can also help save the past. I will never see most of these places, but you make me feel like I was there. Thank you for your incredible channel.
Spent every day during the summer as a boy on dauphin island! And one weekend every summer at Fort Morgan. Now a days I just look at the big forts as we pass by on the boat. Incredible videos man!
So glad you made it to our neck of the woods! Thanks for a great video of Fort Gaines....the ferry is great fun over to Fort Morgan...looking forward to the next video!
My dude!!! I literally just found your page 2 days ago! Was super excited to see you visited Mobile! (I live in saraland) Would have loved to have met you. Sorry for the heat lol. It gets hot here. If you ever come back you have a ton more exploring to do around mobile. Tons of history here. I have not dig into your videos yet and do not know if you have been here before. Come visit again in the spring. It’s nice here during the spring when all the azaleas are blooming.
We have a home on Dauphin Island. We have Easter Sunrise Service in the fort each year. Beautiful to see the sunrise on a special day. Thanks for doing this episode. Love your videos. The iron clad, USS Tecumseh, still lays just off the shore line. Great history.
@@zekesgirl100 My grandfather fought for the South there and escaped when the fort fell and he got captured outside Savannah trying to get to South Carolina to join the Confederate forces there.
Fort Gaines is amazing! Its got everything... Ancient Roman style latrines (right next to the bakery), a portion of Dracula's castle, claustrophobic underground ammunition storage, etc!! 😳😳😳 Lol 😊 It's such an amazing place.. It's like going back in time! ❤️
This was soooooooo coooool. What an awesome video. I use to live near there many, many, many years ago. I visited fort morgan as a child with my family years ago (39 yrs ago).
Always love to see your vids love to see your son comes along I traveled all over for 4 decades with my mom and dad we went to fort Gaines , Morgan, Pullaski, Sumpter etal . All along the coast where you are there's the Alabama bird watching trail, golf courses the esturarium there on Dauphin Bellingrath gardens the ferry and of course seafood and beach walks. Tell your son an old man said one day years after your gone he'd see something about the civil war on TV and think I'll ask dad about that when I talk to him. I do it all the time. Safe travels ,thanks again.
My favorite place to play as a kid, we were taught to respect it. Spring is best If you visit again and please visit the downtown area museum, featuring, the birthplace of Mardi Gras tribute and walking distance to Fort Conde. The duck boat tour takes you from black top roadway straight into the waterways of the mouth of the Mobile river. On the Baldwin county side we have Spanish Fort also known as lookout point. North Mobile has the Ellicott Stone in remembrance of the first settlers in Mobile. Then there’s the haunted Oak Grove cemetery and plantation mansion on the premises located in central mobile county. We are very rich in history. Come join in
That...was....awesome!!! I love forts 💕 As a child in Niagara Falls my geeky heart was happiest at Old Fort Niagara 😊 We moved to Jersey when I was 15 and “sand, heat stroke and sun poisoning “ was exactly how I described it...lol
I’m so happy you came to Alabama! Ft Gaines is incredible. I love the old bricks. I’m really looking forward to seeing your Ft Morgan video. Ft Morgan is my favorite place on earth. It’s fascinating.
Recent subscriber here, working my way backwards through your episodes. Love your work. Just visited family in Mobile and took the kids to Fort Gaines. You’ll be happy to know that the East ammunition storeroom has since been excavated of sand and you can stand upright in it. YT won’t let me post an image, but I’ve got one if you want to see it, JD. Keep up the great work.
According to Grant's memoirs, when he was in charge of the Southern District he continually tried to get Banks to attack Mobile but was unable to convince him and Halleck to do so. This was a continual frustration for him. (Banks' Army of the Gulf was not under Grant's command at that time.) Capturing Mobile would have cut off a major source of Confederate supplies. But Banks, with Halleck's support kept pursuing the Red River Campaign which was strategically unimportant. Canby relieved Banks but when forces in his command were finally able to take Mobile its importance had become obsolete because of Sherman's advances.
You might consider visiting the Pacific NW. Not only is Bremerton WA the site of a huge Naval installation but there are 3 forts just to the North. Ft Flagler (lots of gun emplacements and several pre and during WW2 buildings), Fort Casey, Some emplacements and a few buildings, and Fort Worden, some gun emplacements a LOT of pre WW2 and WW2 buildings. Those 3 forts controlled access to Seattle and Bremerton during the civil war and also during WW2 with their "triangle of fire". Two of the installations are very worthy of a visit (Flagler and Worden).
I live in Mobile, Alabama and have visited Ft. Gains many times they once had letters from soldiers who fought the Battle of Mobile Bay, posted on the walls of the rooms in the fort. One letter stuck me as very touching it said, “Sister thank you for letter I am glad to hear everyone is doing well. Tell mama I think of her cornbread and greens and wish for some, but in this God forsaken place wishin’ does no good.” The other thing that strikes me every time I think of the battle is the Union troops were dressed in woolen uniforms in Mobile temperatures often reach triple digits in August 100-105 is not uncommon. I don’t know why they all didn’t die of heat stroke.
Another beyond awesome history lesson. Thank you for sharing this with us. I get so excited when I see you have released a new video. I love your presentation and personality too.
I just stumbled across your channel the other day. I just want to say thank you for all your work on these videos! One of my new favorite channels, love all your content!
Dauphin Island was named Massacre Island by the original Spanish explorers for the reason that you mentioned. The name was changed to Dauphin Island by the French when they took possession of the island in honor of the eldest son of the king of France who was known as the Dauphin. Fort Gaines surrendered because the Confederate troops petitioned the commander to surrender.
Awesome. I have been waiting for this one. My 18 year old son and I were there just a week or two before or after you, I can't remember which. I remember seeing a post you made where you hinted about coming here. We spent the previous night at Biloxi and set out early to do these two forts before moving on in the direction of Chattanooga for the battle sites around there. We were on an epic week long swing of western theater Civil War sites. You name it and we were probably there. He and I have seen Forts Moultrie and Sumter in SC a few times so it was really cool to see these, too. Gaines was cool, but wow was Morgan really something else. Looking forward to that one, now. I love your passion and enthusiasm for History in all the videos you produce and I am willing to bet your boy shares your passion. I can relate. My son is going to be a history major in college and I couldn't be more proud.
Thank you for this video. Not much of a beach/ocean person. Hard pressed to get me out of the mountain! But appreciate you taking us to places we may never get to visit. So much to learn everywhere one travels. Tell your son he makes a great ghost and wears an awesome hat!
ok boys and girls sit down and hear another uplifting description of the beach from our friend JD.....LOL dang buddy that was amazing as always minus the feel good description of the beach LOL.
Another amazing video, JD! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I wonder how many poor soldiers fell to their deaths down those narrow staircases with no railings.
JD, Could the large pan in the bakery be a Salt Pan? Salt was necessary to preserve meat. In that time period, there was a lot of effort put into boiling down sea water to collect the salt. Now you have a reason to visit the salt works at Cedar Key...
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Been waiting for this one! Love these forts on Mobile Bay, I’m the Captain on the field boat that services the gas platforms in lower Mobile Bay.
Finally in my home town. Fort Pickens at Pensacola beach is one of my favorite places. I’ve caught some giant fish off of fort Morgan and fort Gaines Over the years.
One of the most incredible stories of this battle was getting the CSS Tennessee down from the Selma, Alabama Naval foundry....now that took an incredible effort,
Lots of childhood memories from the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. Twice each summer my dad loaded up the Airstream and hauled the family down there from Tennessee. There used to be a sea shell shop on east of the fort where the road dead ends. Lying in bed at 2:00 am and hearing the pilot boats fire up those diesels to escort ships into the bay. The coast guard cutter stationed there was the Point Verde, which was later sold to Venezuela, I believe. Two old shrimp boats of the Forrest Gump class, the Lucky Jack and Jamie Marie, would come in just before dark with the days catch. We used to buy hand sized gulf shrimp right off the boat for about $1.50/pound and would combine those with the blue crabs we netted from the boat dock piers. Just a great place to grow up.
I just love this guys passion for his country’s history. He has kept me transfixed to everything he has put out. I now know more of the USA than I do of my “old Blighty.” Keep it coming please.
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Thank you!
I have a couple of Facebook friends in the U.K. Really nice guys. Wonderful place for history, 10 times longer than ours here. And even more.
Thanks so much for the wonderful video! As a housewife and lover of kitchen history, I was thrilled when you showed us the bakery! Also, it looks like the large pot/pan in said bakery was probably a modified bread trough. I would imagine that it started out as a "copper", typically a large copper or iron vessel used for various things such as boiling/pickling food as well as boiling laundry. Interesting side note on the bread: in that type of oven, the bottom of the bread was often still a little ashy. So the bread was cut horizontally and formed the lower crust and upper crust. The wealthy, or in this case the officers, would eat the upper crust and everyone else ate the lower crust. Thus the origin of the term "upper crust". Thank you again for all the hard work you put into these videos! They are truly wonderful!!!
I used to re enact there with the 21st Alabama, co D. Infantry. They were there from the beginning, going to Tennessee to fight in the early battles including Shiloh. Then back to mobile. 21st Alabama were infantry but wore red kepis as they manned the artillery at the fort. They also manned the CS Huntley submarine. It brought tears to my eyes when the hunley was found including George dixon’s gold coin that saved his life at the battle of Shiloh in 1861.
Some of the best times, Christmas at the Fort. At that time we were able to use the blacksmith shop and kitchens. We ate period foods followed by a spirited period dance with an authentic period band!!!!
Welcome to my hometown! Lots of interesting history around here. Excited that you are showing some of it!
Love Mobile, great town .
I'm glad you were able to make it our way. Enjoy Fort Morgan.
Growing up we would water ski down the Tombigbee River into Mobile Bay and spend the night at the Ramada Inn on the causeway. We would get up the next day and water ski through the bay and back up the river. In those days the moth balled WWII ships were still in the North end of the bay. It was always an eerie feeling passing those ships.
It's impressive how well the Fort is being preserved. Outstanding.
Fort Gaines was also a great tour.A little bit more than Morgan. Appreciate your dedication to these sites. And thank you for sharing!
Thanks!
The brick work is amazing, i dont understand how its held together so well considering the exposure to sea salt.
Laid by slaves.master craftsmen. 17:55
Admission to Fort Morgan is free to veterans. I've been there, very good place to visit.
Definitely a cool place.
Thanks JD and son, another great episode.
I would have loved to have you as a History teacher in my High School days. Love your videos.
It's awesome that you are doing with your son. What incredible memories you guys are creating together.
You on Holiday brother, MY God thank you, you even still bring us the best stuff when you're meant to be resting ..... I guess you're not getting an R&R ..I used to work for English heritage. They run and look after British sites of history..I used to work at few forts..They are amazing places. full of battles and deaths..THe sites are just amazing as is this one your bring to us right now
Ferry ride is the best. Spend lots of time at the island since moving to Mississippi
I live in dixieland myself and we glad to have you,
Another outstanding series of history covered J.D. thank you once again for your dedication to our history. Keep em coming
That looks like one sturdy fort! Thnx for showing us all the hard to get to spots! 😀👍🏻
You bet!
I was just at fort Morgan last week! Looking forward to your visit!
I have loved your videos for a while now. I am finishing up a geneological project for my history degree and found out that two of my ancestors (a father and son pair) were stationed at Fort Gaines and were captured there. Your video was a great tool for me to visualize what their life might have been like inside the fort. Thank you JD!
Thank you for another great history lesson, I have just recently caught up from the beginning of all your videos. If it wasn't for you and the videos of Easy Company I wouldn't have watched Band of Brothers afterward. Knowing the history first before watching was really awesome for me. Once again thank you for all you do to help everybody with our history.
That was a perfect day at the Beach. It often hurts when you see how time has overrun the past, but your explorations help bring the realization that time can also help save the past. I will never see most of these places, but you make me feel like I was there. Thank you for your incredible channel.
Once again, excellent video! I did not know Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan existed. Thank you for taking me on your journey!
Spent every day during the summer as a boy on dauphin island! And one weekend every summer at Fort Morgan. Now a days I just look at the big forts as we pass by on the boat. Incredible videos man!
Pretty cool. Thanks for bringing it to us.
My pleasure!
So glad you made it to our neck of the woods! Thanks for a great video of Fort Gaines....the ferry is great fun over to Fort Morgan...looking forward to the next video!
Hello from Alabama! So glad you visited my state...hope you come back sometime!
Thanks.
My dude!!! I literally just found your page 2 days ago! Was super excited to see you visited Mobile! (I live in saraland)
Would have loved to have met you. Sorry for the heat lol. It gets hot here. If you ever come back you have a ton more exploring to do around mobile. Tons of history here. I have not dig into your videos yet and do not know if you have been here before.
Come visit again in the spring. It’s nice here during the spring when all the azaleas are blooming.
@Jill Atherton It may take him some time as there is not one minute that will be wasted.
Fascinating! Have visited friends in Fairhope a number of times, but had no idea of the history of Mobile Bay. Thank you!
We have a home on Dauphin Island. We have Easter Sunrise Service in the fort each year. Beautiful to see the sunrise on a special day. Thanks for doing this episode. Love your videos. The iron clad, USS Tecumseh, still lays just off the shore line. Great history.
Thank you, JD for taking us to all these historic sites!!
We have Fort Pulaski and Fort McAllister here in the Savannah, GA area .
Drove from Kansas to see Fort McAllister.
@@zekesgirl100 My grandfather fought for the South there and escaped when the fort fell and he got captured outside Savannah trying to get to South Carolina to join the Confederate forces there.
I’ve been to Fort Pulaski a couple of times but never to Fort McAllister. I will have to look it up and come see it next time we come to Savannah.
@@rosemarykirkpatrick1930 Fort McAllister is in Richmond Hill Ga. right outside of Savannah.
Excellent....Thanks....
Most welcome!
Fort Gaines is amazing! Its got everything... Ancient Roman style latrines (right next to the bakery), a portion of Dracula's castle, claustrophobic underground ammunition storage, etc!! 😳😳😳
Lol 😊 It's such an amazing place.. It's like going back in time! ❤️
Ha! Definitely.
@@TheHistoryUnderground 😊✌🏻
This was soooooooo coooool. What an awesome video. I use to live near there many, many, many years ago. I visited fort morgan as a child with my family years ago (39 yrs ago).
keep up the good work, the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto, would be a good trek
As a Texan I wholeheartedly agree
Damn right, the Alamo is a must
I'm going to visit Fort Pickens Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines next month damn the torpedoes can't wait
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That Civil War ghost looked SO real!
Always love to see your vids love to see your son comes along I traveled all over for 4 decades with my mom and dad we went to fort Gaines , Morgan, Pullaski, Sumpter etal . All along the coast where you are there's the Alabama bird watching trail, golf courses the esturarium there on Dauphin Bellingrath gardens the ferry and of course seafood and beach walks. Tell your son an old man said one day years after your gone he'd see something about the civil war on TV and think I'll ask dad about that when I talk to him. I do it all the time. Safe travels ,thanks again.
your cinematography is becoming awesome, your storytelling always has been
Another wonderful, fun and important episode. Truly, no one else does this so well Thank you.
Appreciate that.
WOW!..that was a lot of brickwork.
Definitely.
Thank you!
My favorite place to play as a kid, we were taught to respect it. Spring is best If you visit again and please visit the downtown area museum, featuring, the birthplace of Mardi Gras tribute and walking distance to Fort Conde. The duck boat tour takes you from black top roadway straight into the waterways of the mouth of the Mobile river. On the Baldwin county side we have Spanish Fort also known as lookout point. North Mobile has the Ellicott Stone in remembrance of the first settlers in Mobile. Then there’s the haunted Oak Grove cemetery and plantation mansion on the premises located in central mobile county. We are very rich in history. Come join in
That...was....awesome!!!
I love forts 💕 As a child in Niagara Falls my geeky heart was happiest at Old Fort Niagara 😊
We moved to Jersey when I was 15 and “sand, heat stroke and sun poisoning “ was exactly how I described it...lol
I love all these shows J.D , i watch everyday
love the civil war forts, got to visit "Fort Sumter" a few years back loved it!
That one is high on my list.
I’m so happy you came to Alabama! Ft Gaines is incredible. I love the old bricks.
I’m really looking forward to seeing your Ft Morgan video. Ft Morgan is my favorite place on earth. It’s fascinating.
Dauphin Island is my go to spot when I need a break. 👍
Awesome fort and so well maintained 👍
Recent subscriber here, working my way backwards through your episodes. Love your work. Just visited family in Mobile and took the kids to Fort Gaines. You’ll be happy to know that the East ammunition storeroom has since been excavated of sand and you can stand upright in it. YT won’t let me post an image, but I’ve got one if you want to see it, JD. Keep up the great work.
I know others have also commented this: Make sure you visit USS Alabama. Hope to see a story about it also!
Decent chance that we'll be seeing it :)
According to Grant's memoirs, when he was in charge of the Southern District he continually tried to get Banks to attack Mobile but was unable to convince him and Halleck to do so. This was a continual frustration for him. (Banks' Army of the Gulf was not under Grant's command at that time.) Capturing Mobile would have cut off a major source of Confederate supplies. But Banks, with Halleck's support kept pursuing the Red River Campaign which was strategically unimportant. Canby relieved Banks but when forces in his command were finally able to take Mobile its importance had become obsolete because of Sherman's advances.
Thanks!
Thanks. At lest you can have a Lunch on me. As Boston, Mass. Boy said: "Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead.
Wow! Thank you so much! I really do appreciate that.
Nicely done. Thank you.
You might consider visiting the Pacific NW. Not only is Bremerton WA the site of a huge Naval installation but there are 3 forts just to the North. Ft Flagler (lots of gun emplacements and several pre and during WW2 buildings), Fort Casey, Some emplacements and a few buildings, and Fort Worden, some gun emplacements a LOT of pre WW2 and WW2 buildings. Those 3 forts controlled access to Seattle and Bremerton during the civil war and also during WW2 with their "triangle of fire". Two of the installations are very worthy of a visit (Flagler and Worden).
The Union naval blockade of the Confederacy was very tight and, a very big factor in it's defeat.
I live in Mobile, Alabama and have visited Ft. Gains many times they once had letters from soldiers who fought the Battle of Mobile Bay, posted on the walls of the rooms in the fort. One letter stuck me as very touching it said, “Sister thank you for letter I am glad to hear everyone is doing well. Tell mama I think of her cornbread and greens and wish for some, but in this God forsaken place wishin’ does no good.”
The other thing that strikes me every time I think of the battle is the Union troops were dressed in woolen uniforms in Mobile temperatures often reach triple digits in August 100-105 is not uncommon. I don’t know why they all didn’t die of heat stroke.
Welcome to my neck of the woods!!! Enjoy
Your videos are amazing. To walk in the actual footsteps of history is always special. Looks like you had the place all to yourselves.
Excellent. Proper military architecture .like the way you go into the holes to find stuff.
Thanks JD, never heard of these Forts, learn something new no matter how old you are.
Awsome place loved this video.
Thank for watching!
drive to Pensacola and go to fort Pickens (real first shots of the Civil War) and enjoy the incredible naval air museum
Minus the houses , it looks A LOT like Fort McHenry .... very cool
Another beyond awesome history lesson. Thank you for sharing this with us. I get so excited when I see you have released a new video. I love your presentation and personality too.
Thanks! I appreciate that.
I just stumbled across your channel the other day. I just want to say thank you for all your work on these videos! One of my new favorite channels, love all your content!
Wow, thank you! Feel free to share it out if you catch a few that you like.
I was living there in 98 and remember that being washed up by George very well...
Dauphin Island was named Massacre Island by the original Spanish explorers for the reason that you mentioned. The name was changed to Dauphin Island by the French when they took possession of the island in honor of the eldest son of the king of France who was known as the Dauphin. Fort Gaines surrendered because the Confederate troops petitioned the commander to surrender.
Another excellent video.
Awesome. I have been waiting for this one. My 18 year old son and I were there just a week or two before or after you, I can't remember which. I remember seeing a post you made where you hinted about coming here. We spent the previous night at Biloxi and set out early to do these two forts before moving on in the direction of Chattanooga for the battle sites around there. We were on an epic week long swing of western theater Civil War sites. You name it and we were probably there. He and I have seen Forts Moultrie and Sumter in SC a few times so it was really cool to see these, too. Gaines was cool, but wow was Morgan really something else. Looking forward to that one, now. I love your passion and enthusiasm for History in all the videos you produce and I am willing to bet your boy shares your passion. I can relate. My son is going to be a history major in college and I couldn't be more proud.
Great tour! Thanks for sharing. Look forward to part 2!!
Thank you for this video. Not much of a beach/ocean person. Hard pressed to get me out of the mountain! But appreciate you taking us to places we may never get to visit. So much to learn everywhere one travels. Tell your son he makes a great ghost and wears an awesome hat!
Gosh this is so cool. Nice work 👍🏻😎
ok boys and girls sit down and hear another uplifting description of the beach from our friend JD.....LOL dang buddy that was amazing as always minus the feel good description of the beach LOL.
Another amazing video, JD! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I wonder how many poor soldiers fell to their deaths down those narrow staircases with no railings.
I'd like to see a piece on Fort Barrancas, Fort McRee and Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island. There's interesting Civil War history there.
Me too. Unfortunately, they were closed down due to storm damage when I was there. Good excuse to go back 🙂
Nothing happened...yall surrendered
Back then you could sneak and peek at your fellow at arms at the Latrine and either cry or laugh your back into position 😆
I love the music that you use on your videos. It’s all new to me and seems to be different songs in each video
Glad you like them!
I have been waiting for this!!!! I used to live in Spanish Fort, so glad you finally went!
Very cool
Very cool place.
JD...Phenomenal video, very incredible fort & historical site, really well preserved and a must visit for Civil War enthusiasts. Hurrah.
Also Fort Conde which is now named Charlotte, the Hunley and Battleship Park.
Hope you were able to visit Fort Blakely in Spanish Fort while in L.A. Last combined force battle of the Civil War!
Stick around :)
So this was the short Alabama trip👍🏻
Big speckled trout on those rocks at the beginning of the video
Thanks for the in depth report on the latrine……lol😀
“Bread, toilets and a blacksmith shop…everything that you would need!” Ba haaa haaa haaaaaaaa
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Thanks JD fantastic video and I can’t wait for part 2
Love your channel. Originally from Mobile, I hope you visited the Mighty A.
Thanks! Decent chance that I made it over there for a few minutes 🙂
Sweet video! Can’t wait to see Fort Morgan!
Very Good!..
JD,
Could the large pan in the bakery be a Salt Pan? Salt was necessary to preserve meat. In that time period, there was a lot of effort put into boiling down sea water to collect the salt. Now you have a reason to visit the salt works at Cedar Key...
Very cool fort
Awesome episode! Never knew anything about the naval war side of the civilwar! 👍
BTW, well done. I love the way you make history come alive.
Very, very cool. Never knew anything of this Fort. Now to do some research of my own. Nice video indeed.