Fort Moultrie hosting tribute to soldiers of American wars

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Published: October 2, 2009

Visitors to the South Carolina coast can see reenactors portraying soldiers who, through the years, were stationed at Fort Moultrie.

On Friday, there are World War II Coast Artillery programs at the fort on Sullivans Island. On Saturday, reenactors and rangers wear uniforms from the Revolutionary, Mexican, Civil and
Spanish-American wars, and World War II.

This year marks the bicentennial of the existing Fort Moultrie where there were two earlier structures.

The first was the palmetto log fort where patriots repulsed a British fleet in 1776. That fort was replaced with a second that was destroyed by a hurricane in 1804. The current fort was finished
in 1809 and closed by the Army in 1947.

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Flag Comment Posted by Cheryl Turner on October 02, 2009 at 6:36 pm

My father-in-law, Clenton H. Turner, Sr., was stationed at Fort Moultrie and met and married my mother-in-law, Sally McClary. World War II broke out and Sr., was sent to England where he served as a gunner. In 1942, Jr., my husband, was born at the Fort Moultrie Hospital. My In-laws have both passed now, but I will never forget their stories of that time.

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