Photographs of Fort Armistead

Battery Irons

N 39°12.523 W076°32.031

Battery Irons had two 4.7-inch pedestal mounted guns. Named after
1st Lt Joseph F Irons who was killed during the Mexican War in 1847.
{see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. page 86}

Looking up to gun emplacement #2.	Gun emplacement #1.
Magazine entrance.

Battery Mudge

N 39°12.597 W076°32.059

Battery Mudge had two 3-inch masking parapet guns. Named after
2nd Lt Robert R Mudge who was killed in 1835 during battle with Florida's Seminoles.
{see "American Seacoast Defenses" 2nd Ed. page 70}

Gun emplacements.	The metal base rings are still present.
The rear section.

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