During the war years, the only two rialorads in the southeast quadrant of South Carolina were the South Carolian Railroad, which ran generally along the line of present day U. S. Highway 78, from Charleston, through Summerville, St. George, Branchville (where a branch led to Orangeburg, then acorss the Congaree through St. Matthews), Blackville and on to Aiken and then to Hamburg (present day North Augusta). The other ran from Charleston to Savannah, but back from coast. It did not run to Walterboro. Camp Lee was at or near Coosawhatchie, where the railroad ran. It also ran through Jacksonboro and present day Yamassee.

Given the distance from Ehrhardt to Camp Lee, it is probable that troops would have "footed" it across country, although they could have gone up to Bamberg and then caught the train to Charleston, and then along the Charleston and Savannah Railroad to Camp Lee. The next time a railorad of any consequence was built in that part of the State was when Port Royal was linked to Augusta by rail; that Port Royal Railroad was not completed until 1880.