Zimmerman, David2025-04-232025-04-231984https://hdl.handle.net/1828/21967Coastal Fort is intended to be as definitive a history of Fort Sullivan at Eastport, Moose Island, Maine as possible. The fort's activities are followed over more than 100 years of development-from the early days of suppressing the smuggling trade (1808-1814), the British occupation (1814-1818), the middle years (1818-1860) and the period from the Civil War (1860-1865) to the present. In doing so, the study outlines the fort's significance not only in the history of Eastport, but also in the history of Maine, the United States and New Brunswick. A recent article in The American Historical Review by R. H. Kohn states that much more work needs to be done in American military history.* Coastal Fort begins such work, providing a valuable case study of the American (and to a much lesser extent the British) army. It shows the usefulness of detailed garrison studies in filling in gaps of our knowledge on the social structure of the American army before 1900. Just how valuable the study will prove in this regard over time, must await the fulfilling of the clear need for more studies on American civil-military relations in the nineteenth century, for it is uncertain if the relationship between the Fort Sullivan garrison and Eastport was typical. Furthermore, more work remains to be undertaken on Eastport's social and economic history.'enBook