Turns out there is very little of the original fort left.

The soldiers supposedly built “Quaker cannons” our of logs to make themselves look more heavily armed.

It’s said that they never fired their real guns in anger.

Here’s one historian’s report of how dull it was:

Soldiers at Fort D, trying to occupy the long hours, ended up carving bowling pins and used one of their 32-pound solid-shot cannon balls as a bowling ball. According to House, one of the soldiers, Benjamin Radford, noted the bowling ball “gave strength to our arms.”

“You know you’re in the backwaters of the Civil War when you are using your cannon balls for bowling balls,” House said.