Map of the Defenses of Charleston City and Harbor

• Main Author: United States. War Department
• Language: English
• Published: Washington : Government Printing Office 1891
• Subjects: United States > History > Civil War; 1861-1865 > Maps; Morris Island; Folly Island
• Online Access: http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/u?/tx-wotr,1149

All the Forts and Batteries represented on this Map were constructed by the enemy for defense, except Fort Shaw and Battery Purviance on Morris Island, Fort Green and the Batteries on Folly Island and the Batteries in the marsh east of the Picket-Line of the United States Forces (depiction of a blue line made up of dots and dashes) indicates Picket-Line of the United States Forces. blue line = United States Forces red line = Confederate View off North Channel, Fort Sumter 3.5 miles distant, bearing W. .75 N. Febry. 18, 1865 (title of drawing at bottom of map)