After the Battle of Port Royal on November 7, 1861, many of the white residents and plantation owners including Smith and his family fled the Sea Islands after the arrival of the Union Navy and Army.

[2][5] The site contains an intact portion of the U.S. Union Army camp occupied from early November 1862 to late January 1863 by the 1st South Carolina Volunteers.

[2] In January 2017, the Camp Saxton Site became part of the newly created Reconstruction Era National Monument, established by President Barack Obama.

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