The Salvaging of this Gun
( 11 inch Dahlgren )
was accomplished by the heroic efforts of
Adolphus W. and James C. Lacoste
and others
after engineers of both Federal and
Confederate Armies had pronounced it
impossible.
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Due to the untiring efforts of
Major John Johnson, C.S.A., Mayor J.
Adger Smythe and Congressman William
Elliot. Materially aided by Lieut. Johnson
Hagood, U.S.A., the gun was raised from
the sands of Sullivans Island where it
had lain since the close of the
War Between the States, and saved to
posterity.
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This tablet is placed by Charleston Chapter U.D.C. No. 4,
in commemoration of these loyal citizens.
Marker is on East Battery Street near South Battery Street, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
