{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Battery Wilkes | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location = St. Andrew's Parish, West Ashley, South Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|32|47|38|N|80|3|56|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = South Carolina#USA | built = {{Start date|1862}} | architect OR builder = | architecture = | added = October 21, 1982 | area = {{convert|1|acre}} | mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000766|title=Civil War Defenses of Charleston TR}} | refnum = 82001516<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} '''Battery Wilkes''' is a historic artillery battery located at West Ashley, Charleston, South Carolina. It was built in 1862, as a part of the western exterior defense line. It is a small earthen redoubt has a 10-foot-high parapet wall and a 15-foot-high powder magazine.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author = unknown| title = Battery Wilkes| work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = n.d.| url = http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710131/S10817710131.pdf | accessdate = 6 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=scdah>{{cite web|title=Battery Wilkes, Charleston County (St. Andrew's Parish)|url=http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710131/index.htm|work=National Register Properties in South Carolina|publisher=South Carolina Department of Archives and History|accessdate=2014-08-01}}</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.<ref name="nris"/>

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{{National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina}}

Category:Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Category:Military installations established in 1862 Category:Buildings and structures in Charleston County, South Carolina Category:National Register of Historic Places in Charleston County, South Carolina Category:1862 establishments in South Carolina Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:American Civil War on the National Register of Historic Places

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