Oceola / Patapsco Dead

Osceola, a famed Seminole leader, fought to keep his people in Florida rather than submit to removal to the Indian Territory. Held at Fort Moultrie from January 1838, he was allowed freedom within the fort until his death from a throat infection on January 30, 1838. Near the end of the Civil War, on the night of January 15, 1865, the Union ironclad monitor U.S.S. Patapsco sank in Charleston harbor after striking a Confederate mine. Sixty-two men died, and five of them are buried here.

Sullivan's Island, South Carolina · United States