Battery Backus

USA / Georgia / Tybee Island /
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One 6" British Armstrong guns on pedestal mount (later rearmed with a 4.7-in British Armstrong gun on pedestal mount) and two 4.7" British Armstrong guns on pedestal mounts were mounted here from 1899 to 1920.

Battery Backus was named May 15, 1903 in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Electus Backus, Light Dragoons, who dies June 7, 1813 of wounds received in action at Sacketts Harbor, New York May 29, 1813.
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Coordinates:   32°1'27"N   80°50'49"W
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