2 helped soldiers returning from the Western Front during the Great War, recover, and readjust to civilian life at home. As they guided visitors into the 20th century, volunteers described the ways in which doctors and nurses here at General Hospital No. Volunteers also helped visitors consider the controversial role Fort McHenry played during the Civil War as a Union garrison charged with saving the state of Maryland for the Union by at times violating the civil liberties of many Marylanders. Army’s operations during the Mexican War, the Civil War, and beyond. Traveling through a variety of living history stations visitors learned about the lives of sailors in early Baltimore, the role of militia and civilians during the War of 1812, technological advances made at the fort in the use of artillery and new military tactics that would influence the U.S. By candlelight volunteers guided over 200 visitors through 170 years of history interpreting Fort McHenry’s role as the “sentinel of the harbor.” On April 1st as part of a Baltimore’s Light City Festival, Fort McHenry NMHS hosted an evening tour of the old Star Fort.
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