1863 Charleston Harbor Map
By 1863 no stretch of water in the Confederacy was watched more closely than Charleston Harbor. Union ironclads were probing the channels in April, the 54th Massachusetts stormed Battery Wagner on Morris Island in July, and Fort Sumter was being reduced to rubble at the harbor mouth. This 1863 Charleston Harbor map shows that contested ground: the harbor where the Ashley and Cooper Rivers meet the Atlantic, the approaches and bar channels blockade runners tried to slip through, and the ring of islands from Sullivan’s Island to James and Folly.
Map Shop prints it as a reproduction, not an original, scanned from the period map at high resolution and digitally restored before printing.
- Digitally restored from a high resolution scan and printed to order
- Paper editions on premium 36 lb stock
- Laminated finish uses 1.7 mil satin-gloss lamination front and back, wet-erase safe
- Mounted version laminated to quarter-inch foam core, so map pins hold
- Rails and frames offered in black or walnut molding, sawtooth hardware attached
A natural fit for Civil War historians, Lowcountry offices, classroom history walls, and library reading rooms.

