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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: August 14, 2011
Caption:
Grave of General William Moultrie | Additional Description:
Major General William Moultrie
1730 - 1805
Commander of
Second South Carolina Regiment
During the Battle of Sullivan's Island
June 28, 1776
When offered inducements by Lord Charles
Hontagu to desert the American cause,
General Moultrie replied "...You have forgot
to tell me how I am to get rid of the
feelings of an injured honest heart, and
where to hide myself from myself... this would
be a fatal exchange from my present situation
with an easy and approved conscience of
having done my duty, and conducted myself
as a man of honor."
The remains of General Moultrie were recovered
from Windsor Hill Plantation, Charleston County,
and reinterred at Fort Moultrie, 1978.
Submitted: August 16, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p167977
File Size: 0.278 Megabytes
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