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IN MEMORY OF HONEA PATH VETERANS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO SERVED

SEE ALSO-BEAUFORT NATIONAL VETERANS CEMETERY MEMORIAL DAY PLAQUE II

SEE ALSO-BEAUFORT NATIONAL VETERANS CEMETERY MEMORIAL DAY PLAQUE I

BORN A SLAVE IN 1839, ROBERT SMALLS LIVED TO SERVE AS A CONGRESMAN OF THE UNITED STATES. IN 1862 HE COMMANDEERED AND DELIVERED TO UNION FORCES THE CONFEDERATE GUNBOAT PLANTER, ON WHICH HE WAS A CREWMAN. HE DIED IN 1915 AND IS BURIED HERE.

GENERAL THOMAS W. SHERMAN KNOW TO MANY AS THE "OTHER SHERMAN", HE WAS NO RELATION TO THE MORE FAMOUS WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

SEE ALSO-FREEDOM ALONG THE COMBAHEE WAR MEMORIAL MARKER

SEE ALSO-COMBAHEE RIVER RAID WAR MEMORIAL MARKER

SEE ALSO-CHARLESTON COUNTY ELEVEN-INCH DAHLGREN GUN MEMORIAL PLAQUE

THIS GUN WAS SALVAGED FROM THE WRECK OF THE U.S.S. KEOKUK. THE KEOKUK WAS PART OF A SQUADRON OF FEDERAL IRONCLAD SHIPS THAT ATTACKED FORT SUMTER ON APRIL 7, 1863. SEE ALSO-CHARLESTON COUNTY ELEVEN-INCH DALGREN GUN WAR MEMORIAL

IN HONOR OF MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON AND THE ONE-ONE-HUNDRED-TWENTY-EIGHT MEN OF HIS COMMAND WHO FOR THIRTY-FOUR HOURS APRIL TWELVE-THIRTEEN, EIGHTEEN-HUNDRED-SIXTY-ONE WITHSTOOD THE DESTRUCTIVE BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER AND WITHDREW WITH THE HONORS OF WAR. ...

SITE OF THREE CONFEDERATE BATTERIES IN THE INITIAL ATTACK, 1861. CONFEDERATE FORCES EVACUATED THE ISLAND SEPTEMBER 7, 1863, AFTER A 58-DAY SIEGE. FEDERAL BATTERIES ON MORRIS ISLAND BOMBARDED FORT SUMTER FROM 1863 TO 1865.

ERECTED BY THE UNITED STATES 1932, IN MEMORY OF THE GARRISON DEFENDING FORT SUMTER DURING THE BOMBARDMENT APRIL 12-14, 1861. MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON FIRST U.S. ARTILLERY COMMANDING.

SEE ALSO-CHARLESTON COUNTY THIRTEEN-INCH MORTAR WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE

THIS MORTAR AND ITS THREE MATES WERE FIRST USED BY FEDERAL TROOPS FOR THE BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER IN OCTOBER, 1863. THEY MAY WELL FORM THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF THIS TYPE OF WEAPON. SEE ALSO-CHARLESTON COUNTY THIRTEEN-INCH MORTAR WAR MEMORIAL