Port of Savannah
Port, Savannah, Georgia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Savannah, Georgia
- Years
- 1861-1864
PORT OF SAVANNAH
Blockade runners from Nassau carried cargo here. CSS Atlanta, bought in Europe for the Confederate Navy, reached Savannah carrying ten thousand Enfield rifles and 400 barrels of gunpowder. Local authorities surrendered the city to Sherman's army on December 21, 1864.
Then
Blockade runners from Nassau carried cargo to Savannah. CSS Atlanta, bought in Europe for the Confederate Navy, reached Savannah carrying ten thousand Enfield rifles and 400 barrels of gunpowder.
Local authorities surrendered Savannah to Sherman's army on December 21, 1864.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads and Norfolk Southern run through Savannah today.
Nearby
- 0 miSherman takes Savannah with 25,000 bales of cottonDecember 21, 1864, Savannah, Georgia
- 12 miFort Pulaski surrenders, closing Savannah as a portApril 11, 1862, Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Georgia
- 27 miPort Royal Sound and Hilton HeadUnion · Port, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
- 28 miUnion fleet captures Port Royal SoundNovember 7, 1861, Port Royal Sound, South Carolina
- 29 miUnion attempt on the Charleston and Savannah fails at Honey HillNovember 30, 1864, Honey Hill, near Grahamville, South Carolina
- 41 miUnion attempt to cut the Charleston and Savannah at PocotaligoOctober 22, 1862, Pocotaligo, near Yemassee, South Carolina