Taking a right once inside the fort takes one into the guardroom, which was the only space in Fort Barrancas designed for soldiers to live! The fort is all gun placements or firing galleries of one kind or another, with nary a space to lay a cot...Barrancas Barracks was built near the fort for those soldiers who wanted to, say, sleep or eat. Clearly, nobody thought that Fort Barrancas might ever undergo a siege of any length.