Savannah Bound-- Part 18: Beaufort and Beaufort National Cemetery

APRIL 4

Next we went to Beaufort, S.C., which is pronounced differently than Beaufort, N.C., though spelled the same way.  South Carolina's  Beaufort is pronounced Bewfort and N.C.'s Bofort.  

One thing I can say is that they have some really narrow streets in the residential.  We drove by the huge house where the movie "The Big Chill"was filmed.  This movie had one of the all-time great soundtracks for folks my age.

Last stop in Beaufort was at the Beaufort National Cemetery.  It has over 24,000 interments.  A large number of them are from the Civil War.  Some 9,000 are Union soldiers (3,607 unknown, 2,800 POWs from the camp at Millen and 1,700 black soldiers).

We visited the Confederate section where 102 are buried.  

There is also a section for members of the USCT including 19 members of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry regiment, the lesser-known sister  regiment of the famed 54th Massachusetts that made the attack on Fort Wagner as shown in the movie "Glory."

--RoadDog