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The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
d for all coming time. But Fort Pickens was not, at the time, either strong or terrible. It requires two things to make a strong fortress. First, the defences made by nature and art; and second, a garrison sufficient to make them available.--Gibraltar is rather a strong fortress, and yet Gibraltar has twice been captured from the force of numbers from an insufficient garrison. The Castle of San Juan de Ullao is rather a strong fortress, but it has twice changed flags for the same reason. IGibraltar has twice been captured from the force of numbers from an insufficient garrison. The Castle of San Juan de Ullao is rather a strong fortress, but it has twice changed flags for the same reason. I might give other i?lustrations, but these are sufficient to demonstrate that, without a sufficient garrison, no fortress is very strong or terrible. This was precisely the weakness of Fort Pickens. Its garrison was less than 100 men. It is a fort of vast area and armament. Its proper garrison is 2,000. It mounts upwards of 200 guns — I believe about 240. To express the idea by a seeming paradox, its strength was its weakness — or its weakness consisted in its strength. In short, it was t