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Fort Independence
Castle Island, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Sunday 27th of May 1827 (x) — Writer of mystery and the macabre Edgar Allan Poe enlists in the US Army as private Edgar A. Perry. Poe claimed he was 22 years old even though he was 18 and first served at Fort Independence for five dollars a month.