The Civil War: Local People

The war's local toll wore human faces here, like Moses Dallas, a skilled Black river pilot who guided Confederate vessels and in 1864 helped lead a raid that captured the USS Water Witch near Savannah.

The Civil War: Local People is a historical marker in St. Marys, Camden County, erected in 2016. It is one of 32 historical markers documented in Camden County, among 70 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 30.7214, -81.5536 near St. Marys. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Civil War Comes to St. Marys (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The Enduring Gullah, Georgia’s Coastal Gem:, and Georgia’s Spanish Period.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.