Battery Slaughter (San Francisco, California)

 military, fortification, artillery battery

This Endicott-era battery was completed and armed in 1900 with three 8-inch guns mounted on disappearing carriages. The battery was built to protect the inner harbor. These guns had a range of about 7 miles. After the early abandonment of this battery, when submarine mines were moved to outside the Golden Gate, the Fort Scott boundary was redrawn to place the battery within the Presidio of San Francisco. The three guns were dismounted and sent to the Watervlient Arsenal in New York State in November 1917 for use elsewhere during World War I, and the magazines were used for storage.

Battery Slaughter was named in honor of Lt. William A. Slaughter, Fourth Infantry, a West Point graduate who was killed by White River Indians at Brannons Prairie, Washington Territory, in 1855.

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