Map of the defences · 1864
Charleston Harbor and city defences
Charleston Harbor and city defences
The most detailed order of battle on any of these sheets: forty numbered works with the guns and mortars in each counted off in a key pasted beside the map, green for Confederate ground and pink for Federal.
The key also marks, in the catalog’s transcription, the “place where Clarck of Brooklin was executed” — the kind of detail that tells you this was made for a public appetite as much as for a staff.
What is on the sheet
- torpedoes in the channels
- obstructions
- bridges, roads and streets
- railroads and rivers
- forts and batteries numbered 1 to 40
- the number of guns and mortars in each work
The catalog’s own notes
“Key to the map of Charleston Harbor and defences” is pasted to the right of the map. “Green represents the Confederates’ land [and] pink the Federal possessions.”