Charleston City Hall- 80 Broad Street. This building served as City Hall during the Civil War. Pictures are shown from the Council Chamber on the second floor, as well as Washington Park (behind City Hall) with monuments to the Washington Light Artillery, Henry Timrod and General Beauregard.
Washington Park
Henry Timrod was known as the poet laureate of the Confederacy. He joined the army and served at Shiloh.
In peace and in war amid the stress
Of poverty and the storms of civil
Strife his soul never faltered
and his purpose never failed. To his
Poetic mission he was faithful to
The end. In life and in death he was
“not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.”
Sleep martyrs, of a fallen cause
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown
And somewhere, waiting for its birth
The shaft is in the stone
Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!
There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor lies
By morning beauty crowned!
Washington Light Artillery- A pre-war militia unit that supplied three companies for the Confederate Army. Those that died during the war are listed on the monument.
25th Regiment SCV
Furl that banner true tis’ gory but tis’ wreathed around with glory
And twill’ live in song and story though its folds are in the dust
For its fame on brightest paces sung by poets penned by sages
Shall go sounding down the ages furl its folds though now we must
Hampton Legion Inf’try
And she points with tremulous hand below to the wasted and worn array
Of the heroes who strove in the morning glow of the grandeur that crowned – the gray
Alas for the broken and battered hosts frail wrecks from a gory sea
Tho’ pale as a band in the realm of ghosts salute them they fought with Lee.
25th Regiment SCV
Where some beneath Virginian hills and some by green Atlantic rills
Some by the waters of the west a myriad unknown heroes rest
And we can only dimly guess what worlds of all this worlds distress
What utter woe, despair and dearth their fate has brought to many a hearth
General
Commanding Confederate forces Charleston South Carolina Held this city and harbour inviolate against combined attacks by land and water 1863 1864 1865
The Council Chamber Second Floor City Hall
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