Documents for the Charleston CDSG Conference in 2021
CDSG Documents for the Modern-era defenses of Charleston, South Carolina (RCBs, RCWs, maps, Quartermaster building records, battery construction correspondence files, Engineer notebook, aerial photos) zip file 881 MB, click link to download zip file.
Marshall Military Reservation/ Sullivan’s Island/ (-1947) /private /KK
#520/ 2-12″/ CBC/ 1944-1947/ guns from Kimble, Travis, modified
unnamed/ 4-155 mm/ PM/
FORT MOULTRIE/ Sullivan’s Island/ 1776-(1947)/ Fort Sumter N.H.M. , private/ MD, MC/KKKK
#125/ 2-16″/ CBC/ NB/ James Island
Capron/ 8-12″/ M/ 1898-1942
Butler/ 8-12″/M/1898-1942
Jasper/ 4-10″/ DC/ 1898-1942/
Thomson/ 2-10″/ DC/ 1906-1945/ used by Fire Department
Gadsen/ 4-6″/ DC/ 1906-1917/ magazine area used as library
Logan/ 2-6″/ DC, A/ 1906-1944/ 1 gun removed 1904
#230/ 2-6″/ SBC/ 1943 / NA
Bingham/ 2-4.7″/ A/ 1899-1918/ 1 gun replaced 1980 Still Emplaced
McCorkle/ 2-3″/ MP/1899-1943/ 1 gun replaced 1980 Still Emplaced
Lord/ 2-3″/ P/ 1899-1946/ destroyedAMTB #2/ 2-90 mm/ F/ 1943-1946/ on Jasper’s parapet
FORT SUMTER / artifical island/ 1842-(1947)/ Fort Sumpter Natl Hist Mon /KK
Huger/1/12″/DC/1906-1943/built over
&/1/12″/BC/1906-1943
AMTB #1/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/covered
Charleston, SC: 1921 Maps PDF (207K) 7 pages $0.35/1945 Maps PDF (284K) 8 pages $0.40
