Fort Lafayette

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Word in the Fort

Fort Lafayette is an island coastal fortification in New York Harbor, built next to Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of Brooklyn.

In the years before the 1861, the fort's 72 heavy cannon commanded the primary approaches to the harbor, but during the Civil War, the casemates are used to house Confederate prisoners of war and politicians opposed to Abraham Lincoln's administration policies.