Federal signal station, Beaufort, SC
7 January 2021
A photograph from the Library of Congress of a signal station atop John G. Barnwell’s house in Beaufort, SC some time after 5 December 1861 when Federal troops occupied the town.
There was more than one John G. Barnwell in Beaufort before the war, but this house probably belonged to Captain John Gibbes Barnwell who was Ordnance Officer to General Pendleton on the Maryland Campaign.
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