Map of battlefield core and study areas.
<p>The ABPP revised the 1993 Study Area to include the Confederate earthworks at Cummings Point, Battery Wagner, and Forts Moultrie, Beauregard, and Johnson. The ABPP also expanded the northern edge of the Study Area to incorporate the line of Confederate obstructions that spanned the inner harbor and extended the Study Area south to include the main shipping channel of Charleston Harbor, which US naval forces used as their route of approach from the south.
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ABPP adjustments to the Core Area better reflect the firing ranges of the Confederate batteries engaged during the battle and the US naval forces firing from the water. Because an attempted torpedo attack on the USS New Ironsides never materialized, the 1993 Core Area representing that location was removed.
American Battlefield Protection Program
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