From Coastal Carolina "Fort Randall, Little River Neck, Horry County, South Carolina" by Ben Burroughs.
The fort is located on the eastern end of Little River Neck on property currently known as Tilgham Point and it is the remains of a Confederate battery/fort built to protet the Little River Inlet from Union forces during the war. The Union's North Atlantic Blockading Squadron was very active in this area.
Fort Randall was built for a dual purpose of protecting the village of Little River and the surrounding countryside and to provide safe haven for blockade runners. As the Union blockade of the major two ports in the area, Wilmington and Charleston, tightened, blockade runners ran into this place.
Fort Randall was in existence by March 1861 when Captain Thomas West Daggett, commanding the Waccamaw Light Artillery, tried to lodge his men in Fort Randall and Fort Ward.
Captain Daggett was a native of Massachusetts who was an engineer who had moved to South Carolina where he used his skills to build and operate rice mills on the Waccamaw Neck.
--Old B-Runner
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