Historic Charleston, South Carolina | Civil War & Revolutionary War Tour

It's a city brimming with history from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and beyond. Charleston, South Carolina, played host to some of the most dramatic events in American History. From the surrender of the city to British forces in May of 1780 to the opening shots at Fort Sumter during the American Civil War, Charleston was integral in the founding and shaping of our nation.
Join host Chris Mackowski as he explores Charleston on the land and on the water. You'll go below the waves and learn about the famed Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley. Atop the waves, we'll travel to Fort Sumter. Visit the Powder Magazine, the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon, and Charleston's City Market. Learn about the Gullah culture and life on a plantation at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens. Stroll through the streets of this vibrant and breathtaking city.
The American Battlefield Trust preserves America’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters. We permanently protect these battlefields for future generations as a lasting and tangible memorial to the brave soldiers who fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War.
0:00 Welcome to Charleston
1:50 Charleston's Founding
3:53 Charleston Battery
5:10 The Seizure of The Planter
5:59 The Old City Wall
7:18 Rainbow Row
7:54 St. Michael's Church
8:33 The Powder Magazine
13:02 The City Market
13:55 Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon
19:48 Liberty Square
21:55 Boone Hall Plantation
27:47 Gullah Theater
35:23 Lunch at Poe's Tavern
37:50 John C. Calhoun's Grave
38:58 Secession Crisis!
40:55 The Civil War in Charleston
41:47 Fort Sumter
55:30 Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts
57:36 The H.L. Hunley
1:14:41 Historic Charleston's Legacy

[@goatcheeta]

One of the best online tours I have seen - great script, organization, and photography and showing local guides with your host. It's got it all. Thanks

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Glad you enjoyed it! It was actually unscripted. We had an outline of locations. Arrived at the location. And we let the guides and the host do the rest.

[@republiccan7138]

Well done

[@shanewhite1717]

More of this please. Makes me want to vist there again soon. So much more to see now. Thanks.

[@rebelscumspeedshop]

Out freaking standing

[@domnick7886]

Awesome history lesson on Fort Sumter.

[@JJJ-014]

Great video. Recently moved to TN and have visited Charleston now a couple of times. It is a very beautiful city and this is a great lesson on it's importance in American history.

[@artrogue4150]

Love my Hometown ! Thanks ABT for the great visit. Hope you come back soon and bring Gary, Chris,Chris and the whole ABT family.

[@terryeustice5399]

Chris a just an amazing tour of Charleston South Carolina. Loved it. Thank you very much! 💯👍👊❤️

[@steveschlackman4503]

The best quote about South Carolina - “South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum.” - James Louis Petigru of Charleston, South Carolina expressed this unpopular opinion as his native state made the radical decision to secede from the Union in December 1860. South Carolina led the way out of the Union. Quote from the National Park Service

[@briansutton9465]

Fantastic tour video! Can’t wait to see you in New Orleans!

[@dodg1988]

I visited Charleston for the first time earlier this year. You provided a great tour of a great city. South Carolina as a whole is a hotbed of historical places and I cannot enough recommend a visit for those interested in our nation's history.

[@JoeMcdonnell]

Brilliant video, hadn't intended to sit and watch anything for an hour but this was excellent. Love the work you guys do. From Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@darrenrawlings9278]

That was fantastic thanks to everyone involved cheers

[@TheHistoryWonderer]

This was great. A wonderful trip through Charleston. I was there a few years ago and went to 90% of the locations you visited. Was nice to get some additional info on the places by watching this video.

[@mjciavola]

Loved Charleston when we were there.

[@edouardrobert160]

Thank you for the great work

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Our pleasure! Thank you for watching.

[@nathanapodaca3456]

You guys should do Richmond VA next. Tons of history there, from the American Revolution(St. John's church and Patrick Henry), The Civil War(obviously) and the Civil Rights era(Loving v. Virginia, etc)

[@TooFarWest1]

Very nice, guys. A top notch presentation. Keep up the good work!

[@popsrock6622]

Great content!

[@kimburke3189]

Fabulous! Great video!

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Thank you for watching.

[@platform15gym]

Love Charleston. Nice video!

[@jeffvinson4875]

Well done. Well done. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@renatobianchi3060]

I like the music intro

[@bigsarge2085]

✌️✌️

[@michaelhoffman5348]

Nice video, but I wish you would have visited "The Museum and Market Hall", home of the Confederate Museum. A wonderful Greek Architecture building built in 1841, it houses wonderful original Confederate Artifacts and would have added nice balance to the topics.

[@49558201]

Demons of Unrest , by Erik Larson .

[@CodyWertz-fb3br]

Just out of curiosity. What happened to lanterns that where sent to the conservation center. I worked on the project. Another person that also worked on the project had gone down there and said they weren't on display?

[@johnresto1603]

Do the trust do the drone videos or another company?

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Both. All of this footage was captured by Acowsay, our video production company for this project. We do have licensed drone pilots on staff who capture footage at other locations.

[@bloodredcrown]

Gary🦾42:00

[@kimberlykreations]

It's unfortunate you did not even mention THE CONFEDERATE MUSEUM!

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

We have multiple videos featuring Confederate Memorial Hall

[@kimberlykreations]

I am unsure of the most recent visit the trust has made, I hope it's been since the new director has taken over, cleaned, and organized it all so beautifully.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

@@kimberlykreations We were just there a few weeks ago for one of our National Teacher Institute tour offerings.

[@bobflagg8917]

Good content but very obnoxious 'music' in the first section.

[@Waiting_777]

Uncle Remus was written in Gullah. Mr. Harris learn Gullah from the kids he played in his youth. He listened to an enslaved gardener tell his stories in Hilton Head area. He wrote the stories down and created Uncle Remus. Unfortunately, these stories have been banned. The Archives has 900 pages of Uncle Remus.

[@bjohnson515]

Indeed the slave industry help create great wealth in Charleston and the area. But, when the slaves were off loaded and purchased, great sums of money went OUT FROM Charleston TO the shipping companies who brought the slaves....most of the ships were flagged/chartered in Boston and certainly nearly all in the Northeast. To look at slavery and the plantations and the connection is one obvious observation. To look at slavery and the mansions of Newport RI, for example, not so obvious.

[@Trashalchemy]

yep, the whole empire was guilty.

[@SouthernGentleman]

“Is it worth while to continue this union of states, where the north demands to be our masters and we are required to be their tributaries.” - Thomas Cooper of South Carolina 1860

[@Trashalchemy]

Secession was the biggest mistake this state ever made

[@damianreyesavila3402]

.Beautiful Stories Channel in Year Saturday March 2,2024.😐.

[@gregpace5982]

Jennifer is the most beautiful person I have ever seen.

[@fatratz2012]

whats sad is the modern day carpet baggers own everything and prices have driven the native born away from their heritage

[@ryanwalters6184]

Nah we are still here.

[@bjohnson515]

The Africans may have brought knowledge of Rice production with them..... but rice is a very old crop, and Africa was not the only place it was produced. Knowledge of rice production was not unique to Africans. It has also been said that it was the Africans that showed the colonists how to make bricks. I guess that explains all the brick buildings in Africa and the lack of such in the great cities of Europe. /s

[@JamesWilliams-dj2bp]

The early Europeans that arrived there were well versed on planting many variations of crops. They planted many different types of seeds to see what grew best. Indigo, cotton and rice, it was found, grew the best and provided income to the planters. Using slaves who were familiar with growing these crops made the profits even greater. Money talks....

[@bjohnson515]

@@JamesWilliams-dj2bp The plantation owners were not ignorant to the methods of rice production...or the making of bricks. Yet the National Park Service suggests the opposite.

[@Trashalchemy]

@@bjohnson515 Because there's a huge difference between being aware of how something is done and having the experience of doing it daily for years. Not everything is a conspiracy, calm down lol. The rich landed gentry who owned these plantations did not do manual labor in England, so they never made bricks. No one in england grew rice, because it didn't grow well there.

[@bjohnson515]

@@Trashalchemy " who owned these plantations did not do manual labor in England, so they never made bricks." So the only people from Europe were wealthy non working people who knew nothing? what of the non rich from Europe....who did know? What of all the industry in New England that operated in the North East....how did the knowledge arrive here? Europe was full of brick buildings....Africa was not. Or do you disagree?

[@Trashalchemy]

@@bjohnson515 Yes, the land owning gentry who were granted lands in South Carolana as it was called at the time had NEVER done manual labor. Nonwealthy people from Europe were never granted lands in the new world. And Africa was absolutely full of brick buildings btw. Villages made their own earthen bricks on site to build their houses. Why bring up unrelated things about North eastern immigrants when we are talking about plantations in South Carolina? You can't change history to fit your narrative, the facts still remain.

[@imhorsenaround]

There are not cobblestone there are ballast stones from rivers in England. I’ve never heard anybody call them cobblestones because they’re not.

[@fatratz2012]

the city market is also known as the old slave market many of the green tables slaves were sold on still exist in the flea market section of the market and are used to sell good on today on weekends

[@crippledcrow2384]

41:05 It wasn't an insurrection, it was legally done and properly carried out.

[@shannonroach778]

Bad sitcoms lasted longer than the Confederacy 😂😂😂

[@denisecaringer4726]

Too touristy. I thought this might be a documentary.