Charleston Harbor, South Carolina – Civil War Era Defensive Battle Map

Charleston Harbor, South Carolina – Civil War Era Defensive Battle MapCharleston Harbor, South Carolina Civil War Era Defensive Battle Map Charleston Harbor was the strategic and symbolic heart of the Confederate war effort the port city where secession was born, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, and where Union naval and land forces spent years attempting to reduce one of the most heavily fortified harbor complexes in North America. This Civil War era sketch of Charleston Harbor, drawn by M. A.