Fort Moultrie Military Reservation (former) (Sullivan's Island)

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This military reservation, encompasing the 3rd System Fort Moultrie as well as a series of Endicott Program batteries, was orginally named Fort Getty February 12, 1902 in honor of Colonel George W. Getty, 4th U.S. Artillery, brevet major general, U.S. Volunteers, who died on October 1, 1901.

It was renamed Fort Moultrie March 30, 1903 in honor of Major General William Moultrie, Continental Army, who rendered conspicuous service during the Revolutionary War and died September 27, 1805 at Charleston, South Carolina.

Formerly home to the Headquarters, Harbor Defenses of Charleston, the Headquarters 8th Infantry Regiment from 1930 to 1939, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Companies, Coast Defenses of Charleston from 1919 to 1924, the 170th Coast Artillery Company from 1922 to 1924, the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry from 1923 to 1940, the 3d Battalion, 8th Infantry from 1923 to 1929, elements of 13th Coast Artillery from 1924 to 1941, and the 70th Coast Artillery, less 2nd Battalion from 1940 to 1941.