Sunday, we took the Old Savannah Trolley Tour which was absolutely wonderful! Dennis, our tour guide, had much detailed history of Savannah. Also, character actors got on the trolley and talked about different areas of the tour. We were visited by the "ghost" of the Sorrel-Weed house. She had been the second wife of an aristocrat. Story goes that she ended her life at the house and visits it. The house, like many in the South, is thought to be haunted.
On another stop, a pirate from the Pirate's House got on board and talked about how pirates really used the house to smuggle rum to Savannah and captured new pirates via the underground tunnels. Captured individuals would be taken to the pirate ship after getting drunk on rum through the underground smuggling tunnel. Then their choice presented: become a pirate or fish food. Sabrina loved this tour, too! She is packing around her trolley ticket as a special trinket in her pocket.
After the trolley tour, we drove through Bonadventure Cemetery and then to Ft. Pulaski. By this time the sun was no longer out clearly but the clouds had rolled in. In fact, the wind was so strong we thought we might blow off the walls of the fort. Hats were removed. The tour guide took us to the top of the corner that was shot by Union Soldiers during the Civil War. New streamline cannons projected farther and damaged the corner of Ft. Pulaski. This once thought invincible fort fell in two days. Above shows the damage that was not repaired.
The wall had been restored to how it looks
After recaptured, Ft. Pulaski became a prison until the end of the Civil War. Five to Six men were required to share a bunk with only one blanket...during the last winter of the war.
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