The South Carolina in the Civil War Message Board

Charleston & Savannah RR

Did the Charleston & Savannah Railroad have a spur track running southeast from Yemassee Junction to Beaufort and Port Royal during the Civil War? The book "Portraits In Conflict - A Photographic History of South Carolina in the Civil War" shows such a spur track in its map on page 116.

I have never seen this spur track illustrated elsewhere, including in books such as "The Railroads of the Confederacy" and "The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War." RR of the Confederacy may not show it because of the relatively small scale of its maps, but the The Official Military Atlas on plate CXLIV shows no such spur track extending from Yemassee Jctn. to Beaufort and Port Royal, and its scale on this plate is quite elaborate and detailed.

Was this an oversight in these last two books, or and error in the "Portraits In Conflict/SC" book?

An interested resident of a border state.