Port Royal Sound and Hilton Head
Port, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Port
- Where
- Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1865
PORT ROYAL SOUND
Union forces captured Port Royal Sound on November 7, 1861. Du Pont set up coaling, provisioning and repair works for the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and Hilton Head became headquarters of the Department of the South and the base for the blockade of Charleston and Savannah.
Then
Union forces captured Port Royal Sound on November 7, 1861. Du Pont set up coaling, provisioning and repair works there for the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and Hilton Head became the headquarters of the Department of the South and the base for the blockade of Charleston and Savannah.
Now
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 22 miles from the center of Hilton Head Island.
Nearby
- 1 miUnion fleet captures Port Royal SoundNovember 7, 1861, Port Royal Sound, South Carolina
- 20 miFort Pulaski surrenders, closing Savannah as a portApril 11, 1862, Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Georgia
- 22 miUnion attempt on the Charleston and Savannah fails at Honey HillNovember 30, 1864, Honey Hill, near Grahamville, South Carolina
- 27 miSherman takes Savannah with 25,000 bales of cottonDecember 21, 1864, Savannah, Georgia
- 27 miPort of SavannahConfederate · Port, Savannah, Georgia
- 28 miUnion attempt to cut the Charleston and Savannah at PocotaligoOctober 22, 1862, Pocotaligo, near Yemassee, South Carolina