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To bar Union ships from the Ogeechee, Confederates sank pilings and planted torpedoes across the channel below Fort McAllister. These underwater obstructions, paired with the fort's guns, made the river approach to Savannah a deadly gauntlet.
Obstruction of River is a historical marker in Richmond Hill, Bryan County, erected in 1964. It is one of 35 historical markers documented in Bryan County, among 74 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.8916, -81.1959 near Richmond Hill. The nearest cataloged historic site is Position of the Monitors (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Damage From Naval Bombardments, Capt. Nicholas Clinch, and Cheves' Rice Mill.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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