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There’s something special about living in a place that is so full of history. I went to show a house the other day on James Island and passed a small park with a monument in it. I stopped yesterday to read it. It was the area in which Fort Lamar was built and the gentle hills surrounding it were the remains of the earthen fort.

 The monument read  “The Batle of Secessionville, fought here on 16 June 1862, broke the Union advance through James Island against Charleston and was the most significant battle of the Civil War in South Carolina. Confederate troops under Thomas G. Lamar defended simple unfinished earthwork. Later enlarged and named Fort Lamar, which sat in the narrow end of a funnel-shaped strip of high ground flanked by tidal creeks and marsh. Union troops under General Henry W. Benham launched several assaults against the earthwork which anchored the eastern end of the Confederate line, but were repulsed with heavy casualties and soon evacuated James Island altogether a few days later.

A total of 683 Federals and 204 Confederates were killed, wounded or captured. Of these totals 107 Federals and 52 Confederates lost their lives on this Battlefield.

Walk Softly on this Hallowed ground.” 

Filed under: Lowcountry Today, Uncategorized on June 22nd, 2010