Fort McAllister Historic State Park

Seven times Union forces attacked it. Seven times the earthworks held. Fort McAllister finally fell in December 1864, when General Sherman's March to the Sea reached the south bank of the Ogeechee River — and with it, the war's momentum reached Savannah. What remains is the best-preserved earthwork fortification of the Confederacy, set inside a 1,725-acre state park among live oaks and salt marsh. A Civil War museum holds the artifacts. The fort has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970.