Places

Homes and plantations

Where the people in this section lived, worked and held property — with the relationship each had to the place, which is not always ownership.

This directory names the relationship rather than assuming one. Owned means title is documented. Rented, boarded and lived mean occupancy, which is a different fact and often the only one the record supports. Where a person was billeted in a house for a season, this site does not call it his home.

A plantation is a tract, not a house. Where the boundary is documented the property is drawn as an area; where it is not, no boundary is invented.

For the householders of the city at large — owner and occupant of every house on every street in 1861 — see the Charleston directory.

PlaceRelationshipPersonWhenKindConfidence
Battery WagnerStationed atThomas A. Hugueninuntil 7 September 1863confirmed
Battery WagnerDied atRobert Gould Shaw18 July 1863confirmed
Fort MoultrieCommanded fromRobert Andersonuntil 26 December 1860confirmed
Fort MoultrieStationed atAbner Doubledayuntil 26 December 1860confirmed
Fort MoultrieLived atMary Doubledayuntil 8 January 1861official residencehigh confidence
Fort MoultrieStationed atAlfred Moore Rhett12 April 1861 to 15 April 1861high confidence
Fort SumterCommanded fromRobert Anderson26 December 1860 to 14 April 1861confirmed
Fort SumterCommanded fromP. G. T. BeauregardMarch 1861 to April 1861high confidence
Fort SumterStationed atAbner Doubleday26 December 1860 to 14 April 1861confirmed
Fort SumterCommanded fromStephen Elliott4 September 1863 to 4 May 1864confirmed
Fort SumterDied atFrancis Huger Harleston24 November 1863confirmed
Fort SumterStationed atJohn H. Houston1863 to 1865confirmed
Fort SumterCommanded fromThomas A. Huguenin20 July 1864 to 17 February 1865confirmed
Fort SumterStationed atJohn Johnson7 April 1863 to 17 February 1865confirmed
Fort SumterCommanded fromJohn C. Mitchel4 May 1864 to 20 July 1864confirmed
Fort SumterDied atJohn C. Mitchel20 July 1864confirmed
Fort SumterCommanded fromAlfred Moore Rhett1861 to 4 September 1863confirmed
Morris IslandCommanded fromQuincy A. Gillmore10 July 1863 to May 1864high confidence
Morris IslandStationed atJohn C. Mitcheluntil July 1863high confidence
St. Philip’s ChurchCommemorated atJohn C. Calhoundate not establishedconfirmed

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