Contents

Acknowledgments...iv

Chronology...vi

Introduction...ix

Photographs...1

Major General H.G. Wright and Colonel Smith S. Leach...2

Pre-Fort military activity; 1902 Army-Navy maneuvers...6

Regional map and Fort H.G. Wright aerials...20

The arrival of troops and supplies...25

Officers Row and Parade Grounds...42

National Guard camp...54

The faces of Fort Wright...63

Armament

Manufacturing guns and carriages...96

Dynamite gun...98

6-inch disappearing gun...100

10-inch disappearing gun...108

12-inch disappearing gun...112

16-inch disappearing gun...117

12-inch mortars...122

Field and antiaircraft guns, secondary armament,

tow targets, submarine mines and naval activity...128

Elizabeth Field...138

1921 aerials...142

Buildings and structures...144

Sports at the Fort...182

Snapshots of Fort life...194

Scrapping the guns, razing the buildings...202

The emplacements today...204

Maps of the main reservation...206

"The Matter of Proceedings to Acquire Land on Fishers Island."...208

The Coastal and Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound

World War I...219

Between the Wars...223

World War II...226

Selected Bibliography...235

About this Book...236