Fort Worth was a timber and earthwork fortification constructed west of Alexandria Virginia as part of the defenses of Washington D.C. during the American Civil War. Built in the weeks following the Union defeat at Bull Run Fort Worth was situated on a hill north of Hunting Creek and Cameron Run (which feeds into it).
This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Fort Worth Virginia"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.