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Civil War Charleston- Chapter 2- The Battery- St. Michael’s Episcopal Church (Stop 11)

St. Michael’s Episcopal Church- 71 Meeting Street. Robert E. Lee worshipped here in December 1861. The steeple was painted black during the war to help disguise it from Union batteries. The church bells were sent to Columbia in 1865 to protect them from damage by Sherman fearing that Sherman was headed toward Charleston. The bells were damaged in Columbia and were repaired in England.

The inside lobby of the church is shown below.

Writes within her hallowed walls the names of her gallant sons who died for the Confederate cause and consecrates their memory 1861 — 1865

Brigadier General J Johnson Pettigrew aged 36
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Pinckney Alston aged 32
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M Wagner aged 37
Captain Edward Downs Frost aged 30
Captain Robert Pringle aged 26
Surgeon Thomas L Ogier aged 31
Assistant Surgeon Edward Gough Porcher aged 26
Lieutentant Thomas Bee Huger CSN aged 42
Lieutentant Philip Porcher CSN aged 29
Lieutentant John Julius Pringle Alston aged 27
Lieutentant William Heyward Grimball aged 26
Lieutentant Thomas Middleton aged 30
Lieutentant Charles Alston Pringle aged 21
Major William Henry Ladson SC M aged 33
Edward Bland Beesley aged 20
Thomas Lynch aged 46
Oliver Hering Middleton aged 18
Thomas Parker aged 29
Frederick George Porcher aged 22
J R Poinsett Pringle aged 21
Alexander Robertson aged 24
Lewes Morris Vander Horst aged 33
They fought the patriots fight. They kept the faith of their fathers. They fell on their stainless shields.
How Grand A Fame This Marble Watches O’er
Their Wars Behind Them God’s Great Peace Before

The interior of the church is shown below.

Pew 43- This is the pew that George Washington worshipped in during his Southern tour and Robert E. Lee worshipped in while serving in South Carolina during the war.

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