Editing Fort Wool (section)

===Endicott batteries===
[[image:Fort Wool Plan Drawing.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Fort Wool in 1921]]

In 1885 the [[Board of Fortifications|Endicott board]] met to recommend improvements to U.S. coast defenses. At Fort Wool the result was the demolition of all but a small part of the western end of the fort to make room for modern gun emplacements. Five gun batteries were constructed after 1902. Fort Wool was armed with relatively small-caliber, rapid-fire guns because Fort Monroe had numerous large-caliber weapons. The 3-inch guns were intended to defend [[Submarine mines in United States harbor defense|controlled underwater minefields]] against [[minesweeper]]s. Some of the mines (called "torpedoes" at the time) were stored at Fort Wool; the mines were controlled from Fort Monroe.<ref name="cdsg123">
{{cite web
| title = The Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay
| date = 23 May 2016
| url = https://cdsg.org/the-harbor-defenses-of-chesapeake-bay/
| publisher  = CDSG
| access-date = 11 March 2019
}}</ref><ref name=FWiki1/><ref name=Berhow212>{{cite book |editor-last=Berhow |editor-first=Mark A. | title = American Seacoast Defenses, A Reference Guide |edition=Third | page = 212 | location = McLean, Virginia | publisher = CDSG Press | year = 2015 | isbn = 978-0-9748167-3-9}}</ref>
* Battery [[Ferdinand Claiborne]]: two [[6-inch gun M1903|{{convert|6|in|adj=on|0}} guns]] on [[disappearing carriage]]s (1908-1918)
* Battery [[Alexander Brydie Dyer|Alexander Dyer]]: two {{convert|6|in|adj=on|0}} guns on disappearing carriages (1908-1917)
* Battery [[Horatio Lloyd Gates|Horatio Gates]]: two {{convert|6|in|adj=on|0}} guns on disappearing carriages (1908-1942)
* Battery [[Henry Lee III|Henry Lee]]: four [[3-inch M1902 seacoast gun|{{convert|3|in|adj=on|0}} rapid-fire guns]] (1905-1943)
* Battery Jacob Hindman: two {{convert|3|in|adj=on|0}} rapid-fire guns (1905-1946)