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The Friends of Honey Hill is a membership organization supporting the preservation of the Honey Hill Battlefield Site
We support the preservation of the Honey Hill Battlefield Site for future generations by partnering with the Town of Ridgeland, SC on initiatives and projects concerning rehabilitation, preservation, protection, management and interpretation of the battlefield. We will also work to promote the site as a significant destination for cultural and heritage tourism in the Beaufort-Jasper County area, working collaboratively with other area organizations such as the SC Battleground Preservation Trust, the Lowcountry Civil War Roundtable and others to that end.
U.S. Colored Troops at Honey Hill
At Honey Hill, a few miles from Grahamville (present day Ridgeland), a Confederate force of South Carolina regulars and Georgia militia under Cavalry Colonel Charles J. Colcock, blocked the Union avenue of approach with a battery of seven guns. Determined repeated attacks were launched valiantly by regiments of U.S. Colored Troops (including the 54th Massachusetts that fought the year before at Fort Walker), but the position of the Federal force was such that only one section of artillery could be used at a time, and the Confederates were too well entrenched to be dislodged. The Confederate victory, inflicting heavy losses on the Union forces, was one of the largest and most significant of the final Confederate victories of the Civil War.
Battle of Honey Hill
This state historical marker stands along State Road 336 approximately one mile east of the main Confederate earthworks at Honey Hill.
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