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Bunkering Down on
Sullivan’S iSlanD
Story by Brian Sherman.
Photos by Brian Sherman and Jim Curd.
L
ong before the entire world was at war, sullivan’s island
had already secured its place in U.S. history. The Colonial defenders at what later was
to be named Fort Moultrie beat back a British onslaught from the sea during a critical
early battle of the American Revolution. Eight-and-a-half decades later, with another
conflict on the horizon, Maj. Robert Anderson and his troops abandoned Moultrie in
favor of a not-yet-completed bastion in Charleston Harbor. In April 1861, now occu-
pying Fort Sumter, they were pounded by the first shots of the Civil War.
The island’s military history after the War Between the States is not nearly as notorious, but, nevertheless,
there is concrete evidence that the federal government at one time considered Sullivan’s Island to be a key
link in a chain of installations established to protect the East Coast against invasion from America’s World