About: Fort Scott (Arlington, Virginia)     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatFortsInVirginia, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FFort_Scott_%28Arlington%2C_Virginia%29

Fort Scott was a detached lunette constructed in May 1861 to guard the south flank of the defenses of Washington during the American Civil War. It was named for General Winfield Scott, who was then General-in-Chief of the Union Army. An historic marker and a small remnant of the fort are the only evidence of the site of the fort on the grounds of what is now Fort Scott Park in Arlington County, Virginia. A May 17, 1864, report from the Union Army's Inspector of Artillery noted the following: The fort is located in the Arlington Ridge community.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Fort Scott (Arlington, Virginia) (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Fort Scott was a detached lunette constructed in May 1861 to guard the south flank of the defenses of Washington during the American Civil War. It was named for General Winfield Scott, who was then General-in-Chief of the Union Army. An historic marker and a small remnant of the fort are the only evidence of the site of the fort on the grounds of what is now Fort Scott Park in Arlington County, Virginia. A May 17, 1864, report from the Union Army's Inspector of Artillery noted the following: The fort is located in the Arlington Ridge community. (en)
foaf:name
  • Fort Scott (en)
name
  • Fort Scott (en)
geo:lat
geo:long
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fort_Scott_Historical_Sign.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fort-lyon-alexandria-virginia-vhs00032-1-.jpg
location
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
thumbnail
used
condition
  • Dismantled (en)
demolished
battles
builder
built
caption
  • Fort Scott Historical Sign (en)
location
  • Arlington, Virginia, USA (en)
map type
  • United States District of Columbia street (en)
partof
  • the Civil War defenses of Washington, D.C. (en)
type
  • Earthwork fort (en)
georss:point
  • 38.84736111111111 -77.05972222222222
has abstract
  • Fort Scott was a detached lunette constructed in May 1861 to guard the south flank of the defenses of Washington during the American Civil War. It was named for General Winfield Scott, who was then General-in-Chief of the Union Army. An historic marker and a small remnant of the fort are the only evidence of the site of the fort on the grounds of what is now Fort Scott Park in Arlington County, Virginia. The fort was one of the ring of Union Army fortifications that the Union Army constructed as part of the Civil War defenses of Washington (see Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War). It was one of 33 forts on the Virginia side of the Potomac River that made up a defense line (the Arlington Line) for the national capital city. The fort was built with a perimeter of 313 yards enclosing emplacements for eight guns, two magazines, a guard house and bombproof. Armament at one time included five 24-pounders, one 8" howitzer, one 30-pounder Parrott rifle, one 6-pounder and two 10" mortars. A May 17, 1864, report from the Union Army's Inspector of Artillery noted the following: Fort Scott, Major Trumbull commanding.–Garrison, one company First Connecticut Heavy Artillery–4 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 137 men. Armament, two 12-pounder mountain howitzers, two 6- pounder James (rifled). Magazines, two; dry and in good condition. Ammunition, full supply and serviceable. Implements, complete. Drill in artillery, fair. Drill in infantry, fair. Discipline, fair. Garrison sufficient for the work." Construction of the defense of Alexandria to the west subsequently reduced the importance of the fort. The fort was abandoned in 1865 at the end of the war. The fort is located in the Arlington Ridge community. (en)
controlledby
materials
  • Earth, timber (en)
open to public
  • yes (en)
gold:hypernym
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
building end date
  • 1861
builder
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 43 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software