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