Sister's Ferry
| Sister's Ferry | |
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| Location | Tom Gothe Rd (SC State Road S-27-277) Near Clyo, GeorgiaEffingham County, Georgia / Jasper County, South Carolina |
| Coordinates | 32°29′35.664″N 81°13′35.4″W / 32.49324000°N 81.226500°WCoordinates: 32°29′35.664″N 81°13′35.4″W / 32.49324000°N 81.226500°W |
| Built | After 1820 |
Sisters Ferry is a historical site where the left wing of Union Maj. Gen. William Sherman's Army crossed the Savannah River during the beginning of General Sherman's "Carolina's Campaign" near the end of the American Civil War.
Sister's Ferry is a ferry crossing the Savannah River established sometime after 1820. The site is approximately 2 miles downstream of an older ferry-crossing site, Two Sister's Ferry, where loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolutionary War crossed the Savannah River on March 12, 1780. It is approximately 35 miles upstream from the City of Savannah.
After Sherman captured Savannah, the culmination of his march to the sea, he was ordered by Union Army general-in-chief Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to embark his army on ships to reinforce the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James in Virginia, where Grant was bogged down in the Siege of Petersburg against Confederate General Robert E. Lee. However, he persuaded Grant that he should march north through the Carolinas instead, destroying everything of military value along the way, similar to his march to the sea through Georgia. Sherman was particularly interested in targeting South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union, for the effect it would have on Southern morale.
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