Civil War Torpedo Boatmen Memorial
In Memory of
The Supreme Devotion of Those Heroic Men
Of the Confederate Army and Navy
First in Marine Warfare
To Employ Torpedo Board
1863 - 1865
Moved by
The Lofty Faith That With Them Died
Crew After Crew
Volunteered
For Enterprises of Extremest Peril
In the Defenses of Charleston Harbor
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Of More than Thirty Men
Drowned in this Desperate Service
The Names of but Sixteen are Known
Lost in Charleston Harbor
15 October 1863
Horace L. Hunley
Inventor of Submarine Boat
Robert Brookbank
Joseph Patterson
Thomas W. Park
Charles McHugh
Henry Beard
John Marshall
Charles L. Sprague
Sinking Blockader Housatonic
17 February 1864
George E. Dixon
Lieut. 21st Alabama Vols.
C.F. Carlson
Corporal Wagener Arty.
Arnold Becker
James A. Wicks
C. Simpkins
F. Collins
--- Ridgeway
--- Miller
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Attacks Without Loss of Life
Blockader New Ironsides 21 August 1863, by the Torch designed by Capt. F.D. Lee, Engrs. Commanded by Capt. J. Carlin, with Lieutenant E.S. Fickling S.C. Artillery Regulars.
Blockader New Ironsides 5 October 1863, by the Little David designed by St. Julien Ravenel, M.D. Commanded by Lieutenant W.T. Glassell, Confederate States Navy.
Marker is at the intersection of South Battery and Meeting Street, on the right when traveling west on South Battery.
Courtesy hmdb.org
