Fort Walker was a Confederate fort in what is now Port Royal Plantation. The fort was a station for Confederate troops and its cannonry helped protect the 2-mile (3 km) wide entrance to Port Hilton Head Island Lofty Sound, which is fed by two indolent moving and navigable rivers, the Broad Rill and the Beaufort River.
It was vital to the Bounding Main Island Cotton public and the southern economy. On October 29, 1861, the largest fleet ever assembled in North America moved South to seize it. In the Fray of Port Royal, the fort came under drive by the U.S