Stop 1- Snowden House- 15 Church Street. Home served as a Confederate hospital.
Stop 2- General Ellison Capers Home- 69 Church Street. Capers served as an officer on Sullivan’s Island during the bombardment of Fort Sumter. He organized the 24th SC and fought at the Battle of Secessionville. He fought at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Atlanta. After the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864, he was promoted to Brigadier General.
Stop 3- Hayward-Washington house- 87 Church Street. The home of Sarah and Angelina Grimke who were active in the anti-slavery movement.
Stop 4- James Louis Petigru’s (Pettigrew’s) Law Office- 8 St. Michael’s Alley. A Brigadier General in the Confederacy. He was wounded and captured at the Battle of Seven Pines. He fought at the Battle of Gettysburg and took over Henry Heth’s division on July 1st. The division assaulted Cemetery Ridge on the 3rd. Pettigrew was killed on July 14th at Falling Waters and is buried near Bunker Hill, West Virginia.
Stop 5- District Court House- 62 Broad Street. During the war the building was the Confederate States Court for the District of South Carolina. Following the war it was used as a home for Confederate widows and orphans.
Stop 6- The Walker, Evans, and Cogswell Building- 3 Broad Street. A printing office that produced military forms and Confederate currency was here. One of the partners Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Walker Commanded the 10th SC. He was at the Battle of Atlanta and at Kingston, NC in March 1865.
Stop 7- The Old Exchange Building- 122 East Bay Street. See separate post for Stop 7.
Stop 8- Inglis Arch house- 91 East Bay Street. The house was damaged during Union shelling in 1864.
Stop 9- Caspar Christian Schutt House- 51 East Bay Street. John Fraser a blockade runner owned the house.
Stop 10- General Wilmot G. DeSaussure Home- 45 East Bay Street. Wilmot DeSaussure commanded Fort Moultrie after the Union evacuation in December 1861. In April 1861 he was an artillery commander on Morris Island during the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
Stop 11- Porcher-Simon’s Home- 29 East Battery. Francis Porcher was a delegate to the SC Secession Convention and helped draft the ordinance of Seccession.
Stop 12- Nathaniel Ingraham House- 2 Water Street. The home was damaged by Union shelling in 1864. After the war Dr. Edward Wells bought the home. He authored two biographies of Wade Hampton. This is the Nathan Ingraham House not the picture shown in the book.
Stop 13- The Edmondston-Alston House- 21 East Battery. General Beauregard watched the bombardment of Fort Sumter from the second floor piazza. In December of 1861 General Robert E. Lee spent a night here during the Charleston fire. Charles Alston commanded Confederate forces on John’s Island near the Stono River. Union General Rufus Saxton occupied the home after the Confederates evacuated the city.
Stop 14- William Ravenel House- 13 East Battery. Spectators watched the Battle of Fort Sumter from the roof.
Stop 15- William Roper House- 9 East Battery. During the evacuation of Charleston in February 1865 Rebels were spiking their cannon before leaving. In the process one of the cannon exploded and part of the barrel landed in the home’s attic, where it is still located today.
Stop 16- John Ravenel Home- 5 East Battery. His son Dr. St. Julien Ravenel invented the torpedo boats known as the Little David’s, a predecessor of the Hunley.
