Civil War (1861-1865)
123 highway markers.
Abbeville County
- 01-04Abbeville's Confederate ColonelsAUGUSTUS J. LYTHGOE, 19 S.C. Inf./Killed Murfreesboro, 1862/J. FOSTER MARSHALL, Orr's Rifles/Killed Second Manassas, 186...
- 01-07Burt-Stark HouseWhen Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, left Richmond after its fall in April 1865, he traveled south, tryin...
- 01-11McGowan-Barksdale-Bundy HouseThis 1888 Queen Anne house was the home of Gen. Samuel McGowan (1819-1897) until his death. McGowan, a lawyer, Confedera...
- 01-14Secession HillOn November 22, 1860, a mass meeting on this site was one of the first held in the South after Abraham Lincoln’s electio...
- 01-10Thomas Chiles Perrin HouseThe Greek Revival residence of Thomas Chiles Perrin (1805 1878), prominent Abbeville District lawyer, planter, businessm...
Aiken County
Allendale County
Anderson County
- 04-29Clement Hoffman StevensConfederate Brig. Gen. Clement H. Stevens (1821-1864) is buried nearby in the Bee family plot. Born in Connecticut, Stev...
- 04-08Confederate SkirmishOn May 1, 1865, cadets from the Arsenal Academy at Columbia, under Capt. John Peyre Thomas, who were enroute from Greenv...
- 04-28Sandy Springs Camp GroundThis Methodist camp ground, named for the large spring nearby, dates to 1828, when a fifteen-acre site was purchased fro...
Bamberg County
- 05-09Battle of Rivers BridgeOn February 2-3, 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman’s Federals advanced toward Columbia, units of Gen. F.P. Blair’s XVII Corps a...
- 05-01Battle of Rivers' BridgeHere on February 3, 1865, the 17th U.S. Army Corps led by Major General Joseph A. Mower and Lieut. Gen. Giles A. Smith a...
Barnwell County
Beaufort County
- 07-06"Robber's Row"After the occupation of Hilton Head in 1861, a civilian town grew up to serve the needs of the large Union base and its ...
- 07-28Battery SaxtonBattery Saxton, constructed here in 1862, was in the second line of earthworks built by Federal troops occupying Beaufor...
- 07-07Battle of Port RoyalA decisive battle in the Civil War took place here on Nov. 7, 1861, when 18 Union warships with about 55 supporting craf...
- 07-39Combahee River RaidOn June 1-2, 1863, a Federal force consisting of elements of the 2nd S.C. Volunteer Infantry (an African-American unit) ...
- 07-24Emancipation DayOn New Year's Day 1863 this plantation owned by John Joyner Smith was the scene of elaborate ceremonies celebrating the ...
- 07-40First African Baptist ChurchThis church, founded in 1865, grew out of an antebellum praise house for black members of the Baptist Church of Beaufort...
- 07-34Fort HowellThis Civil War fort, named for Gen. Joshua Blackwood Howell (1806-1864), was built by the U.S. Army to defend Hilton Hea...
- 07-72Fort HowellThis Civil War fort was built from August to November 1864 by the 32nd U.S. Colored Infantry and the 144th N.Y. Infantry...
- 07-54Fort MitchelFort Mitchel was built by the U.S. Army in 1862. It was an earthen fortification of lunette design, open at the rear wit...
- 07-08Fort ShermanCompleted in 1862, this large earth fort was designed to defend the great Union blockade base on Hilton Head against Con...
- 07-09Fort WalkerHastily built in 1861 to protect the S.C. coast against Union attack, Fort Walker, commanded by Col. William C. Heyward,...
- 07-23Mitchelville SiteIn 1862, after Hilton Head's fall to Union forces in 1861, this town, planned for the area's former slaves and named for...
- 07-15Penn SchoolAfter Union occupation of the sea islands in 1861, two northerners, Laura Towne and Ellen Murray, came to help the freed...
- 07-55Queen Chapel A.M.E. ChurchThe congregation of Queen Chapel can trace its roots to May 1865 when A.M.E. missionaries Rev. R.H. Cain, Rev. James H.A...
- 07-14Tabernacle Baptist ChurchTabernacle Church was formed by black members of Beaufort Baptist Church after other members evacuated the area due to F...
- 07-43The Burning of BlufftonBluffton, an antebellum planters’ summer village, was virtually abandoned by its seasonal and year-round inhabitants whe...
- 07-74Union Army EncampmentIn Jan. 1862, U.S. troops established an encampment on the south side of Boundary St. during their Civil War-era occupat...
Berkeley County
Charleston County
- 10-59Battery ChevesThis four-gun Confederate artillery battery was one of several earthworks built on the southeastern shore of James Islan...
- 10-51Battery HaigThis Confederate earthwork, named for the owner on whose plantation it was built, was constructed in 1863. It and other ...
- 10-58Battery HaskellThis two-gun Confederate artillery battery and magazine is all that remains of Battery Haskell, a large fortification bu...
- 10-56Battery Number 5This was one of several Confederate earthworks constructed on the southwest portion of James Island in the summer of 186...
- 10-27CS H. L. HunleyThe CS H.L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, left from a point near here on the evening of February...
- 10-64Camp of Wild's "African Brigade," 1863-1864Folly Island was occupied by Union troops April 1863-February 1865. Gen. Edward A. Wild’s “African Brigade” camped nearb...
- 10-39Confederate LinesThe earthworks nearby are remains of the 1861 fortifications built to defend Mount Pleasant. They extended east 2.5 mile...
- 10-50Federal Expedition on John's IslandThe Battle of Burden’s Causeway was the climax of a Federal expedition against John’s Island, July 2-9, 1864. 5000 Feder...
- 10-99First Memorial DayHampton Park was once home to the Washington Race Course and Jockey Club. In 1864 this site became an outdoor prison for...
- 10-62Fort PembertonFort Pemberton, a large five-sided Confederate earthwork on the James Island side of the Stono River, was built in the s...
- 10-69Institute HallInstitute Hall, built here in 1854, stood until 1861. An Italianate building, it was designed by Jones and Lee for the S...
- 10-61Redoubt Number 3Redoubt Number 3, built here in 1861-62, was one of six identical Confederate earthworks built across the center of Jame...
- 10-34RiversvilleRiversville, an antebellum village of fourteen acres, with seven lots on Savannah (later Secessionville) Creek, was esta...
- 10-138Skirmish at Grimball's PlantationOn June 10, 1862 a Civil War skirmish occurred near this site. Union forces had recently set up camp at Thomas Grimball’...
- 10-76The Seizure of the PlanterEarly on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved harbor pilot aboard the Planter, seized the 149-ft. Confederate transp...
Cherokee County
Chesterfield County
Colleton County
Darlington County
- 16-51"Yankee Hill"In the summer of 1865, just after the end of the Civil War, Federal troops began their occupation of many cities and tow...
- 16-12Attempted AmbushOn March 5, 1865, near the point where the Ebenezer Road crossed the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, the 29th Missouri M...
- 16-43Henry "Dad" BrownHenry "Dad" Brown (1830-1907), a black veteran of the Mexican, Civil, and Spanish-American Wars, is buried 75' N with hi...
- 16-08Jacob Kelley HouseThis house, home of Jacob Kelley (1780-1874), was used as a Union headquarters on March 2-3, 1865 by Major-General John ...
- 16-27James Lide CokerJames L. Coker (1837-1918) came here from Society Hill ca. 1858 as a planter. While serving in the Civil War as a captai...
- 16-39Japonica HallThis house, built in 1896-97 and designed in the Beaux Arts style by noted S.C. architect Charles Coker Wilson, was the ...
- 16-52Julius A. Dargan HouseThis house was built in 1856 for Julius A. Dargan (1815-1861). Built on land acquired from Jesse H. Lide in 1839, the ho...
- 16-48Wilds-Edwards HouseThis Italianate house, designed by J.L. Clickner, was built 1856-57 for planter Samuel H. Wilds (1819-1867). According t...
- 16-19Wilson CrossroadsAt this point the Camden-Mars Bluff road intersected the road to Darlington on property granted to the Reverend John Wil...
Dorchester County
Edgefield County
Fairfield County
Florence County
Georgetown County
- 22-22Bethel ChurchThis African Methodist Episcopal church was the first separate black church in Georgetown County. It was established by ...
- 22-23General Arthur M. ManigaultVolunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. Beauregard in April 1861, mustered into Confederate service at White's Bridge near here o...
- 22-58Sinking of the USS Harvest MoonIn early 1865 the USS Harvest Moon, a 193-foot, 5-gun side-wheel steamer, was the flagship of Adm. John A. Dahlgren of t...
Greenville County
Greenwood County
Hampton County
- 25-10Hermitage PlantationThis plantation was owned by large land owner Geo. Rhodes (1802-1881) who signed Ordinance of Secession in 1860. Traditi...
- 25-08Old Pocotaligo Road, March from the SeaThis was a major road in the northern part of old Beaufort District for many years, appearing in Mills' Atlas of 1825. G...
- 25-22Steep Bottom Baptist ChurchSteep Bottom Baptist Church was constituted in 1814 through the efforts of Rev. Hezekiah A. Boyd and Rev. James Sweat. S...
Horry County
Jasper County
- 27-02Battle of Honey HillDuring this battle of Nov. 30, 1864, Confederate commander Charles J. Colcock, by ordering that a nearby field of grass ...
- 27-22Battle of PocotaligoThe Battle of Pocotaligo, the largest action of a three-day expedition intended to disrupt the Charleston & Savannah Rai...
- 27-29Battle of TulifinnyOn Dec. 6-9, 1864, in the waning months of the Civil War, around 1,000 Confederate soldiers defended the nearby Charlest...
- 27-08Fighting Near CoosawhatchieOn October 22, 1862, in running encounters near Coosawhatchie, Frampton's Plantation, and Pocotaligo, Confederate troops...
- 27-01RobertvilleNamed for descendents of Huguenot minister Pierre Robert, it was the birthplace of Henry Martyn Robert, author of Robert...
- 27-19The Frampton LinesRemnants of a large earthwork originally more than 100 yards long are still visible south, west, and northwest of the Fr...
Kershaw County
Laurens County
Lee County
Lexington County
- 32-30Battle of Congaree CreekOn February 15, 1865, as Gen. W.T. Sherman's Federal army advanced to Columbia, Gen. O.O. Howard's Army of the Tennessee...
- 32-40Congaree Creek EarthworksThese earthworks were constructed in early 1865 and were the site of brisk fighting between the Union XV Corps and Confe...
- 32-20Providence ChurchLutheran church said est. 1862. Admitted to synod 1866. Present remodeled building, built by 1869, is on land deeded chu...
- 32-05Shelling of ColumbiaPrior to the capture of Columbia by Gen. William T. Sherman, Federal artillery shelled the city on February 16, 1865, fr...
- 32-27Skirmish at Red Bank CreekOn February 15, 1865 Gen. Henry W. Slocum's Army of Georgia, the left wing of the Federal advance toward Columbia, march...
Marion County
Marlboro County
Newberry County
Oconee County
Orangeburg County
Richland County
- 40-04"Chesnut Cottage"Temporary wartime home of Gen. and Mrs. James Chesnut. Here they entertained Jefferson Davis, president, C. S. A., and h...
- 40-188Burning of ColumbiaDue to Columbia’s strategic value, capture of the city was an objective of the Union Army during the Carolinas Campaign ...
- 40-116Camp JohnsonThis Confederate camp of instruction was once located about 1 mi. NW at Lightwood Knot Springs, site of a popular resort...
- 40-124Confederate Printing PlantFrom April 1864 to February 1865 Confederate bonds and currency were printed and processed in this building, constructed...
- 40-12Governor's MansionArsenal Academy, converted from a state arsenal, occupied this square from 1842 to 1865 when Union troops burned all the...
- 40-49Sherman's HeadquartersDuring the Federal occupation of Columbia February 17-19, 1865 commanding General William T. Sherman had his headquarter...
- 40-18Site of Gibbes HouseOn this corner stood the home of Dr. Robert W. Gibbes (1809-66) distinguished physician, scientist, historian, editor, a...
- 40-13Site of Palmetto Iron WorksOn the SW corner of this square was located the Palmetto Armory, later called Palmetto Iron Works, originally built for ...
- 40-35Site of Wayside HospitalEstablished March 10, 1862 by a group of Columbia women to care for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers. Supported by ...
- 40-127Skirmish at Killian's MillOn February 18, 1865, the day after Federals under Gen. W.T. Sherman occupied Columbia, Gen. Frank Blair ordered units o...
- 40-131State Dispensary WarehouseThis building, built in 1863-64 and burned by Federal troops in 1865, was rebuilt in 1872 as a cotton batting factory an...
- 40-10State FairgroundsThis square is part of the tract where state fairs were held 1856-61, 1869-1903. The buildings, used 1861-65 for Confede...
Saluda County
Sumter County
- 43-30Battle of Beech CreekIn April 1865 Confederates formed a defensive line along the high ground above Beech Creek to oppose Brig. Gen. Edward P...
- 43-10Battle of Dingle's MillHere on Apr. 9, 1865, the day of Gen. Lee's surrender, was fought one of the last battles of the War between the States....
- 43-36Battle of StateburgIn April 1865 2,700 Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter left Georgetown in a raid against the railro...
- 43-25Military PostAfter the Civil War ended in 1865, a Federal military occupation garrison was located for sometime in this area of Sumte...
- 43-32Potter's HeadquartersFederal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter, on a raid through this area in the last days of the Civil War, ...
- 43-33Skirmish At Dinkin's MillFollowing the battle of Boykin’s Mill on April 18, 1865, Federal troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Edward E. Potter advance...
Union County
Williamsburg County
York County
- 46-11Bratton House SiteRobert Clendinen, Yorkville lawyer and South Carolina senator from York District (1816-30), purchased this land in 1813....
- 46-05Jefferson Davis's FlightHaving crossed the Catawba at Nation Ford, April 27, 1865, the President of the Confederacy fled south along this road f...
- 46-04Jefferson Davis's Flight South, April 26-27, 1865Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet, making their way south from Richmond, Va. with a cavalry escort, ...
- 46-09Sims Home SiteNear this spot stood the Rock Hill residence of Robert Moorman Sims, captain, C.S.A., who on April 9, 1865, carried the ...