The Tents Inside the Fort

Rank on rank of small tents fill a hollow inside the works, pitched in lines with the sand walls rising around them — a garrison's whole housing in one frame.

The Library of Congress hedges its own title — tents inside a fort, possibly on Morris Island — and the hedge is kept here. What is certain is the arithmetic of the picture: several hundred men lived in this hollow, and the earth around them is the reason they could.