[Side A]
On June 28, 1776, a British and Loyalist force seeking to capture Charleston advanced to Sullivan's Island with 9 ships and 2,500-3,000 infantry. The American defenders, 435 men under Col. William Moultrie of the 2nd S.C. Regiment, occupied a fort nearby, built from plametto logs. Still unfinished when the fighting began, it is sometimes referred to as "Fort Sullivan" in contemporary accounts.(Continued on other side)
[Side B]
(Continued from other side)As Adm. Peter Parker's ships shelled the fort its log walls absorbed or deflected the British shells and the Americans lost only 37 men killed or wounded. Moultrie's shells damaged every ship, inflicted 219 losses, and forced Parker's withdrawal. A British land attack at Breach Inlet also failed. The first major Patriot victory of the war also gave S.C. its nickname, "The Palmetto State."

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CS H.L. Hunley
This is Sullivan's Island
10-Inch Columbiad, Rifled and Banded
10-Inch Columbiad (Rodman)
7-Inch Brooke Rifle, Triple Banded
10-Inch Confederate Columbiad
8-inch Parrott (200 Pounder)
13-Inch Seacoast Mortar
10-Inch Parrott (300 pounder)
Civil War Armament

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