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The Stono River or Creek is a tidal channel in southeast South Carolina, located southwest of Charleston.The channel runs southwest to northeast between the mainland and Wadmalaw Island and Johns Island, from north Edisto River between Johns (West) and James (East) Islands.
The leader of the rebellion, Jemmy, was a literate enslaved man. In some reports, however, he is referred to as "Cato", and likely was held by the Cato (or Cater) family, who lived near the Ashley River and north of the Stono River. He led 20 other enslaved Kongolese, who may have been former soldiers, in an armed march south from the Stono River.
The Stono River is a critical part of the 3,000 miles (4,800 km) of Intracoastal Waterway used by barges, fishing boats, and recreational mariners.The former swing bridge, built in 1929, [1] was an obstruction to vessel traffic, thus removal was mandated by the U.S. Coast Guard in an Order to Alter issued in 1994, leaving only a few swing bridges in the Coast Guard’s Seventh District, from ...
The site of the battle is off River Road, just north of the Charleston Executive Airport. On July 2, 1864, Brig. Gen. John Hatch's Federal troops landed in the Legareville section of Johns Island. [3] Hatch wanted to cross Johns Island, then cross the Stono River and lay siege to James Island.
It is the near the Stono River Slave Rebellion Site, a U.S. National Historic Landmark and location of the start of the Stono Rebellion, the first large-scale slave revolt in the United States. There was a Rantowles Depot. [1] There is a Rantowles Bridge. [2] Rantowles Creek feeds into the Stono River. Coburg Dairy was established in the area. [3]
Stono Bridge, which crosses the Stono River in Charleston, South Carolina (USA); Stono Rebellion, a slave rebellion that broke out in 1739 in the British colony of South Carolina, (modern USA); Battle of Stono Ferry, an American Revolutionary War battle, fought on June 20, 1779 near Charleston, South Carolina (USA).
Further down the Stono River, which ran along Johns Island past Legareville and into the Atlantic, two other gunboats were posted near the Stono Inlet. They were the USS Pawnee , commanded by George Balch and with the firepower of eight IX-inch Dahlgren guns, one 100-lb Parrot Rifle, one 50-lb Dahlgren Rifle, and two 12-lb boat howitzers.
Richard Stout (1836 – August 6, 1896) was a Union Navy sailor during the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor for his actions in an engagement with Confederate naval and land forces on the Stono River in South Carolina.