To go around and look at the old forts in this part of the world might make a person believe the millennium had come.
They seem just about as good as ever they were, but they're all on a peace-footing.

Rectus said they were played out, but I'd rather take my chances in Fort Charlotte, during a bombardment, than in some of the new-style forts that I have seen in the North.

It is almost altogether underground, in the solid calcareous, and what could any fellow want better than that?
The cannon-balls and bombs would have to plow up about an acre of pretty solid rock, and plow it deep, too, before they would begin to scratch the roof of the real strongholds of this fort.

At least, that's the way I looked at it.
We made up a party and walked over.

It's at the western end of the town, and about a mile from the hotel.