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Statement of Confederate Works
in the
Department of South Carolina
4 October 1862
_____Works_____ ____Location____ _____Armament___ Condition
Fort Sumter Charleston 2 8" Shell Complete
Harbor 3 9" Shell
5 8" sea coast
6 24pdrs
3 24pdr howitzers
5 10"
12 8"
31 32pdrs
4 32pdr rifles
7 42pdr
6 42pdr rifles
7 10" mortars
37 other guns
Fort Moultrie Charleston
Harbor,
Sullivan's
Island
Fort Beauregard Charleston 1 8" Unfinished
Harbor, 1 8" shell
Sullivan's 1 32pdr rifle
Island east 2 24pdrs
of Moultrie 1 other gun
New Batteries Charleston 4 10" Unfinished
Harbor, 5 other guns
Sullivan's
Island west
of Moultrie
Breach Inlet Charleston 2 32pdr Unfinished
Batteries Harbor, 1 24pdr
Sullivan's 1 32pdr rifle
Island 4 12pdrs
north end 1 Howitzer
Morris Island Morris Island 2 8" shell Unfinished
Battery 1 32pdr rifle
3 32pdrs
1 24pdr rifle
Fort Charleston 1 32pdr rifle Complete
Johnson Harbor, 1 8"
James Island 2 32pdrs
8 other guns
Fort Ripley Charleston 5 guns Unfinished
Harbor
Battery at Charleston 4 32pdrs Complete
Lawton Harbor 1 6" rifle
James Island
Battery at Charleston 1 32pdr Unfinished
McLeod Harbor, 4 24pdrs
Wappoo Creek 7 other guns
James Island East of James 1 8" howitzer Unfinished
Lines Island Creek 5 32pdrs
8 24pdrs
4 18pdrs
1 18pdr rifle
James Island West of James 1 8" sea coast Unfinished
Lines Island Creek 9 siege guns
12pdr to 24pdr
James Island Fort Pemberton 1 32pdr Complete
Redans & 8 other guns
Redoubts
Fort Lamar Successionville 2 10" Unfinished
Left flank of 2 8" shell
Lines 1 32pdr rifle
6 32pdrs
2 24pdr rifles
2 other guns
Fort Stono River, 2 10" Complete
Pemberton covering right 2 8"
flank of lines 2 32pdr rifles
4 32pdrs
2 24pdrs
2 18pdrs
2 12pdr rifles
4 other guns
Batteries at James Island, 2 42pdr carronades Complete
Holmes House east end, 2 32pdr shell
western lines
Batteries at James Island 8 Field pieces Complete
Cross Roads
below the
Church
Battery at James Island 7 Field Pieces Complete
Freer's
Cross Roads
_____Works_____ ____Location____ _____Armament___ Condition
Reed James Island, 2 24pdrs Complete
Battery Clark House 1 24pdr rifle
3 other guns
Batteries Saint Andrew's 10 guns Unfinished
Connected Parish, Wilkes
by Covered Place
Way
Bee's Ferry St Andrew's Parish 20 guns Unfinished
Batteries 8-l0 miles above
the city
Charleston From Ashley to 4 8" siege how Unfinished
Lines Cooper River 2l other guns
Half Moon East of City 7 guns Unfinished
Battery on Cooper River
Batteries Rear of Rantowles 9 guns Complete
connected by Station, at Junction
Covered Way of Charleston &
Savannah Railroad,
Willstown &
Jacksonborough Rd.
Redoubt Rantowles House 3 guns Complete
0.875 miles from
depot in fork of
Rantowles Creek
and Jacksonborough
Road, on Parker
Ferry Road.
Church Flats 600 yards below 4 guns Complete
Battery Church Flats
Stono Bridge, 800 yards below 2 guns Complete
Bridgehead obstructions at
Church Flats
Stono Bridge Connecting John's Unfinished
Island with main.
360' long, 50'
draw. Causeway
1,075 yds
Sullivan's Island Unfinished
Bridge
Floating Battery Unfinished
Causeway and Connecting east and Unfinished
Bridge west lines on James
Island
Wappoo Draw Connecting James Awaiting
Bridge Island with main Material
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion,
A Compilation of Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Government Printing Office;
Washington, D.C., 1882
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