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We did quite a bit more than take in history and architecture. On Monday, Anna, Jennifer, and I went to Tybee Island. We walked up and down the beach and admired the seagulls pecking at dead fish and crabs. I couldn't convince Jennifer to kick off her shoes and wade out in the water. Then again, with all those dead fish, perhaps she was right not to.

        

        

After enjoying the morning at the beach, we stopped at Fort Pulaski, which was built in the 1830s and 1840s. Fort Pulaski fell to Union troops on April 10, 1862, giving the North a foothold on southern soil. We watched a Park Ranger in Civil War uniform talk about the uniforms, the weaponry (a breech loading Enfield rifle), and demonstrate firing the rifle. After ward, we explored Fort Pulaski, looked through the rooms that housed officers, soldiers, and weaponry, climbed to the ramparts to look at the cannons, and walked the grounds.

        

        

Another excursion we took was to the Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah. Colonial Park Cemetery was founded in 1750 and was closed for burials in 1853. It was then reopened as a park in 1896. This cemetery holds the remains of Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.  Over 700 citizens died during the Great Yellow Fever epidemic of 1820. They were all buried in Colonial Park Cemetery. During the Civil War, Union Soldiers camped in the cemetery and altered the dates of tombstones. Even though there are only about 600 burial markers still standing in the cemetery, over 10,000 bodies are buried there.

                          

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