Stop 1- White Point Gardens- see separate post for Stop 1.

Stop 2- A Middleton Home- 1 Meeting Street- General Saxton’s Headquarters.

Stop 3- Colonel Richard Lathers’ Home- 20 South Battery Street. Lathers served in the Union army and bought the home after the war.

Stop 4- St. Patrick O’Donnell House- 21 King Street. The house was owned during the war by Thomas McGahan a blockade runner. His ships ran in and out of Galveston, Texas. He was a cousin of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind. The character Melanie was based on his wife Emma.

Stop 5- Miles Brewton House- 27 King Street. This home was the site of Federal Headquarters during the occupation of Charleston in 1865. At different times Generals Hatch and Meade were assigned here.

Stop 6- A Trenholm Home- 54 King Street. Home during the war of the blockade-runner George Trenholm.

Stop 7- Marx Cohen House- 85 King Street. Marx Cohen’s son was a Confederate officer who was killed at the Battle of Bentonville.

Stop 8- Brigadier General James Simons Home- 93 Broad Street. Simons commanded the batteries on Morris Island during the bombardment of Fort Sumter.

Stop 9- Charleston County Court House- 84 Broad Street. Soldiers from the 54th MA were tried and acquitted here after their capture at Fort Wagner in July 1863.

Stop 10- Charleston City Hall- 80 Broad Street. See separate post for Stop 10.

Stop 11- St. Michael’s Episcopal Church- 71 Meeting Street. See separate post for Stop 11.

Stop 12- Payas-Mordecai House- 69 Meeting House. Moses Cohen Mordecai was a partner in a local blockade running company.

Stop 13- First Scotts Presbyterian Church- 57 Meeting Street. The church donated its bell to the Confederacy and it was melted down to make munitions. There is a plaque on the outside ofthe building honoring Confederates who died during the war.

Stop 14- The Nathaniel Russell House- 51 Meeting Street. Owned by Governor Robert Alston who evacuated it during the Siege of Charleston in 1863.

Stop 15- General Beauregard’s headquarters- 37 Meeting Street. From October 1862 to August 1863 General Beauregard made his headquarters here.

Stop 16- Daniel E. Huger house- 34 Meeting Street. The house was damaged during Union shelling and looted during the Union occupation.

Stop 17- Drayton home- 2 Lawson Street. The home was used by the Drayton family for social events.