SEE ALSO-CITADEL POW MIA MEMORIAL FLAGPOLE PLAQUE

THIS DISTINGUISHED FIGHTER-BOMBER IS DEDICATED TO THE CITADEL GRADUATES WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THE SOUTHEAST ASIA CONFLICT. THEIR COURAGE AND UNSELFISH DEDICATION UNDER COMBAT CONDITIONS WILL ALWAYS SERVE AS THE STANDARD OF NOBLE COMMITMENT TO FREEDO ...

SEE ALSO-MCDONNELL F-4C PHANTOM II MEMORIAL AIRCRAFT PLAQUE

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

SEE ALSO-SIEGE OF CHARLESTON THIRTEEN INCH MORTAR WAR MEMORIAL

SEE ALSO-SIEGE OF CHARLESTON THIRTEEN INCH MORTAR WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE