To the Defenders of Fort Moultrie

[Front of Monument:]

[Upper Plaque:]

Second

South Carolina

Regiment

Army of the

Revolution

Organized

June 17, 1775

[Lower Plaque:]

“To the

Defenders

Of

Fort Moultrie

June The 28th

1776”

[Engraved in Base:]

“No men ever did and it is impossible

Fort Moultrie

Military reservation Named in Honor of Col. William Moultrie who commanded Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) comprising the 2nd South Carolina Regiment of infantry and a detachment of the 4th South Carolina Regiment (Artillery) during the Revolutionary War

Marker is ...

Fort Moultrie

Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter controlled Charleston Harbor.

Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island directly in front of you, had been an early harbor defense and was the site of Charleston's famous Revolutionary War palmetto-log fort. Fort Sumter was built here ...