Fort Flagler Battery Calwell

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Battery James Calwell is a reinforced concrete gun battery on Fort Flagler, Washington, built during the Endicott Period. It was named in General Order 194 on December 27, 1904, after Captain James H. Calwell of the Virginia Volunteers, who died in action on September 18, 1847, in the Mexican-American War. Construction began in 1903 and took two years to complete at a cost of $89,500. The battery was then transferred to the Coast Artillery on April 23, 1907, but it was deactivated just nine years later, in 1917.