Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1898 — FORTS WELL MANNED. [ARTICLE]

FORTS WELL MANNED.

Capital City’s Defenses Are at Last Prac.ically Completed. The preparation for the defense of the national capital has been practically completed, so far as its approach by water is concerned. The battery at Sheridan's Point on the Potomac, just above Mount Vernon, is now completely manned, and will prove a powerful auxiliary to the main battery at Fort Washington, on the opposite shore of the river, nearer the city. A garrison was established at Fort Washington several months ago. It consists of a detachment of the Fourth artillery from Washington barracks, under command of Captain Howe. The work of building the emplacements and mounting the guns at Sheridan Point was completed only a short time ago, and its establishment as a post was accomplished only within the past few days, when battery K of the Fourth artillery arrived there from Fort Monroe and went into camp. The Collector of Internal Revenue at Louisville has received a payment from unknown parties of $2,400 in gold, representing taxes on whisky of which the Government was defrauded in 1863.