Battery Haig

Battery Haig is a South Carolina historical marker in James Island, Charleston County, dedicated 2006.

Charleston County · dedicated 2006 · just off East Shore Dr., Oakland Subdivision, James Island, James Island

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This Confederate earthwork, named for the owner on whose plantation it was built, was constructed in 1863. It and other works on the north bank of the Stono River were intended to help defend Charleston’s western approaches along the Charleston & Savannah Railroad. In late 1864 Battery Haig was armed with two 24-pounder rifled cannon. It and the rest of the Confederate defenses of Charleston were abandoned when the city was evacuated February 17, 1865.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
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Battery Haig

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