Port of Charleston
Port, Charleston, South Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1865
PORT OF CHARLESTON
Haven for Confederate blockade runners through most of the war despite repeated Union attacks and a sunken stone fleet. Beauregard ordered the city evacuated on February 15, 1865, and the mayor surrendered it on February 18, 1865.
Then
Charleston was a haven for Confederate blockade runners through most of the war despite repeated Union attacks and a sunken stone fleet.
Beauregard ordered the city evacuated on February 15, 1865, and the mayor surrendered it on February 18, 1865.
Now
Lines owned by CSX, Norfolk Southern and smaller railroads run through Charleston today.
Nearby
- 0 miCharleston ironclad buildingConfederate · Naval works, Charleston, South Carolina
- 2 miCharleston ArsenalConfederate · Arsenal, Charleston, South Carolina
- 56 miUnion attempt to cut the Charleston and Savannah at PocotaligoOctober 22, 1862, Pocotaligo, near Yemassee, South Carolina
- 58 miUnion fleet captures Port Royal SoundNovember 7, 1861, Port Royal Sound, South Carolina
- 58 miPort Royal Sound and Hilton HeadUnion · Port, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
- 60 miBranchville junctionConfederate · Rail junction, Branchville, South Carolina