| Fort Tillinghast | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Civil War defenses of Washington, D.C. | |
| Arlington County, Virginia | |
 Map of Fort Craig and surrounding area including Fort Tillinghast, 1865. | |
| Coordinates | 38°52′46.2″N 77°05′08.2″W / 38.879500°N 77.085611°W |
| Type | Earthwork fort |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | Union Army |
| Condition | Residential Area |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1861 |
| Built by | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| In use | 1861–1865 |
| Materials | Earth, timber |
| Demolished | 1865 |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Fort Tillinghast was a small lunette that the Union Army constructed in Alexandria County (now Arlington County), Virginia, as part of the Civil War defenses of Washington (see Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War).[1] Fort Tillinghast stood about 0.6 miles away from Arlington House, the Union-occupied estate of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
- ^ Cooling III, Benjamin Franklin; Owen II, Walton H. (2010). Touring the Forts South of the Potomac: Fort Tillinghast (New ed.). Scarecrow Press. pp. 105–107. ISBN 978-0-8108-6307-1. LCCN 2009018392. OCLC 665840182. Archived from the original on 2018-04-05. Retrieved 2018-03-05 – via Google Books.
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