Where Is Legareville? It's History and the Civil War-- Part 1

From Johns Island Conservancy  "Legareville"

Since I have been writing about this place and that battle so much this month, here is a little background.

The town is at the confluence of the Stono and Kiawah rivers in South Carolina, near Charleston.  It was a summer resort for plantation owners on Johns Island. and had two dozen  dwellings and two churches.  

At the beginning of the Civil War, the village was evacuated by order of Robert E. Lee, commander of the Department of South Carolina at the time.  The Union navy stationed gunboats off the village throughout the war, including the USS Marblehead , which, as you know, was surprise attacked by Confederate forces on Christmas Day, 1863.

Subsequently, Union forces landed at various times to dismantle the houses of Legareville to use for their camp at Folly Island.

--Old B-Runner