Moultrie
Moultrie names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Moultrie WILLIAM, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an American military officer; born in South Carolina, in 1731. He was of Scotch descent, his parents emigrating to South Carolina early in the 18th century. In 1761 he commenced his career as captain in a militia regiment, raised for the defense of the frontier against the Cherokees, rendering important service. He was elected to the provincial congress in 1775, and appointed colonel of the 2d South Carolina regiment. In 1776 he was designated to construct a fort on Sullivan's Island, at the mouth of Charleston harbor. The fort, which had 26 guns and 435 men, and was commanded by Moultrie, hastily built of palmetto logs, was found to resist the cannon balls perfectly. The British fleet attacked the fort before its completion, but were repulsed with great slaughter. Moultrie was made brigadier of the Continental forces, and distinguished himself by the repulse of the British advance on Charleston, in 1779. In the spring of 1780 Charleston was again attacked, and Moultrie, second in command, shared in the capitulation of the American forces. He remained a prisoner two years, being exchanged in 1782, and was promoted promoted a Major-Geness. In 1785 he was eral by Congress. elected governor of South Carolina, and again in 1794, after which he retired to private life. He was the author of "Memoirs of the Revolution." He died in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 27, 1805.
Moultrie a city of Georgia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Georgia, the county-seat of Colquitt co. It is on the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic, Flint River and Northeastern, Georgia and Florida, and other railroads. It is the center of a commercial and manufacturing community, and has meat-packing plants, mattress factories, fertilizer plants, lumber mills, and cotton mills. There is a library and handsome government building. Pop. (1910) 3,349; (1920) 6,789.
Moultrie FORT, a defensive work on Sullivan's Island
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FORT, a defensive work on Sullivan's Island, at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, S. C., celebrated for the repulse of a British squadron commanded by Sir Peter Parker, June 28, 1776.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The biography of William Moultrie stands essentially as Collier's told it in 1921, though modern references usually give his birth as 1730 rather than 1731, and the palmetto-log fort he built survives on the South Carolina state flag. Fort Moultrie itself, still an active coast-defense post when the 1921 entry was written, was finally deactivated by the Army in 1947 after some 170 years of service and turned over to the National Park Service; it is now open to visitors as part of what Congress renamed the Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park in 2019. Moultrie, Georgia, described as a railroad and cotton-mill town of 6,789 people in 1920, has grown to roughly 14,000 and lost the cotton mills and most of the rail service; it is best known today as the site of the Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition, a large annual farm show, and for food-processing rather than textiles.
Written for this edition, 2026.