War at Flood Tide '98 - After Action Reports

Part of the War at Flood Tide Website

War at Flood Tide has joined the history of Charleston that it commemorated, but as Beauregard ordered his commanders at Charleston to file reports and keep diaries, we too are gathering information and publishing our reports. Return to this page for information on the event, images, pictures and sound files documenting the days the Civil War Returned to Charleston Harbor to commemorate the 135th. Anniversary of the Seige of Charleston.

The Saturday Morning Battle was veiwed by between ten and fiftenn thousand people with the largest crowds being at the Battery. Gate receipts for admission to the camp were $2,700 and over two thousand people visited for the modest rate of $5 per family (some families had 10 members visiting with granparents, aunts and uncles). Hundreds more people visited the camp on Friday and Sunday as well. The Saturday evening Blockade runner battle drew a crowd of over a thousand to the Battery and the final concert at the Battery drew about a thousand people as its audience. The Edmonston Alston House (site of the ladies living history) had what is believed to be the highest admissions for a single day in its history as a house museum. The United Daughters of the Confederacy Museum on Pitt Street drew more visitors in a single day than it has since moving to that location after Market Hall was damaged in Hurricane Hugo. Friday's parade passed crowds for nearly its entire mile and a half route through the city.

The Cybergeneral Goes to War

Sierra Online was present with the winner of their national Civil War Generals II Contest, Duane Russell, who refought and won the war for the Confederacy online last January. The Sierra Online After action report is online. This online report contains some wonderful images of the event (links are underscored, not in contrasting print colors).

Send us your Pictures and Video

War at Flood Tide, Inc. is collecting photographs and video of the event to preserve as a record and, to the extent possible, to place online here. Please mail your copies (please do not send originals) to

Write the Mayor

The City of Charleston provided energetic support for this event. Please consider conveying your thanks by writing Mayor Riley. War at Flood Tide would welcome copies for our files. Mayor Riley's detailed web page provides full information.

T - Shirt Orders

The War at Flood Tide T-shirt features a black and white version of our flag logo as a pocket sized imprint on the front and a color battle scene from the Ironclad Attack on Ft. Sumter, April 7, 1863 on the back. Taycours, a City Market Vendor, is selling the shirt from its booth on the North Side of the City Market Building situated between State and East Bay Street. For information on telephone and mail orders, call (843) 795-0256 or Fax (843) 406-4843. A T-shirt based on the Bob Graham Beauregard Portrait created for War at Flood Tide is also in the works. To Order either shirt, send $17 for sizes Medium to X-large. or $19 for 2x to Taycours, Inc.; 1181 Bradford Ave. Charleston, SC 29412. 7% of the wholesale price of each shirt is donated to the renovation of Charleston's Market Hall, once and future home of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Museum.

Our Page of Thanks

War at Flood Tide benfitted from the assistance of hundreds of people. Read the still growing list of the men, women, businesses and government agencies which helded make Charleston Harbor Thunder - Supporters of theWar at Flood Tide effort..