This driving tour is based on the book Civil War Tours of the Low Country by David D’Arcy.

Grand Army of the Republic Hall- 706 Newcastle Street

Wesley Methodist Church- 701 West Street- hosted a school for freedmen during the war.

Robert Smalls house- 511 Prince Street. This house was the boyhood home of Robert Smalls when he was a slave owned by John McKee. Later in life he would purchase the house with money he received from a bounty when he guided the steamer the Planter into Union lines. Smalls remarkable life is chronicled in a previous post (link).

St. Peter’s Catholic Church- 710 Carteret Street. During the Civil War the church housed a school for freedmen.

Beaufort College 803 Carteret Street- During the Civil War it served as a school for former slaves and part of a hospital complex serving both Federal soldiers and freedmen. It was also the Beaufort headquarters for the Freedmen’s Bureau during Reconstruction. 

The Beaufort National and Mercy Cemeteries

Covered in the next post (link)

Source

Civil War Tours of the Low Country by David D’Arcy