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'''Fort McRee''' was a bent elliptical military fort located at the eastern tip of [[Perdido Key]], near [[Pensacola Pass]]. Significantly damaged during the [[Civil War]], the fort was essentially abandoned and left to the the elements. There are little or no remnants of the fort visible today.
==Construction==
The fort was designed in [[1829]] by [[Wikipedia:Simon Bernard|Simon Bernard]]. Ironically, the man for whom the fort would be named in [[1840]], Army engineer Colonel [[Wikipedia:William McRee|William McRee]], had resigned his commission in [[1819]] in protest after Bernard was appointed to a high position in the Army Corps of Engineers.<ref name="coleman">Coleman, James C. (1988). Fort McRee, The Castle Built on Sand. Pensacola Historical Society.</ref>
Construction took place between 1834 and 1839, and as was the case with Pensacola's other area forts, was overseen by [[William Henry Chase]].
==[[Civil War]]==
==Postbellum abandonment==
After the Civil War, Fort McRee was essentially abandoned. This is evidenced by the War Department's permission in 1875 for the commanding officer at [[Fort Barrancas]] to remove 50,000 bricks from McRee to make repairs at Barrancas.<ref name="coleman" />
Nearly everything that remained of Fort McRee was leveled by the [[1906 hurricane]].
==Reuse==
==References==
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[[Category:Forts]]
==Construction==
The fort was designed in [[1829]] by [[Wikipedia:Simon Bernard|Simon Bernard]]. Ironically, the man for whom the fort would be named in [[1840]], Army engineer Colonel [[Wikipedia:William McRee|William McRee]], had resigned his commission in [[1819]] in protest after Bernard was appointed to a high position in the Army Corps of Engineers.<ref name="coleman">Coleman, James C. (1988). Fort McRee, The Castle Built on Sand. Pensacola Historical Society.</ref>
Construction took place between 1834 and 1839, and as was the case with Pensacola's other area forts, was overseen by [[William Henry Chase]].
==[[Civil War]]==
==Postbellum abandonment==
After the Civil War, Fort McRee was essentially abandoned. This is evidenced by the War Department's permission in 1875 for the commanding officer at [[Fort Barrancas]] to remove 50,000 bricks from McRee to make repairs at Barrancas.<ref name="coleman" />
Nearly everything that remained of Fort McRee was leveled by the [[1906 hurricane]].
==Reuse==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{stub}}
[[Category:Forts]]
