Fort Ricketts

ID: 2472 ~ Source: Wiki Commons ~ Creator: Photo by John Stanton ~ Date: 22 May 2013

This file appears in: Fort Ricketts: Fort Ricketts is a part of earthworks built by Union forces who protected the Capital City by building a ring of forts. The fort was designed to sweep a steep ravine in front of Fort Stanton.

Built out as a small earthworks fort with a 123 yard perimeter and equipped with four guns. The fort was designed to sweep a steep ravine in front of Fort Stanton

Fort Ricketts: Fort Ricketts is a part of earthworks built by Union forces who protected the Capital City by building a ring of forts. The fort was designed to sweep a steep ravine in front of Fort Stanton.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Fort Ricketts was constructed to protect the Maryland or eastern end of the two bridges crossing the Anacostia (at the Navy Yard and two and a half miles upstream at Benning's Bridge) and to occupy…