Historic Resource Study: The Sandy Hook Defenses 1857-1948

by Edwin C. Bearss

This National Park Service resource was prepared for Gateway National Recreation Area to explain the New Jersey defenses that protected the New York Harbor.

Within the public domain. Available online at the non-profit Army Ground Forces Association website.

549 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 1983

About the author

A specialist in the American Civil War, Edwin Cole Bearss was employed by the National Park Service, where he worked as their chief historian from 1981 until 1994.