The Battery is a landmark seawall and promenade area in historic Charleston, South Carolina. Named for a civil-war coastal defense artillery battery, it is found along the eastern shore of the downtown peninsula, surrounded by the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, which meet and form the Charleston harbor. High Battery is the higher part of the promenade, along East Battery, to Murray Boulevard. Fort Sumter, Castle Pinckney, The USS carrier Yorktown and Fort Moultrie on Suilivan's Island is easily visible from the Cooper River (High Battery) side and from the point.

The Battery is famous for its historically southern homes, the Louis DeSaussure House (1 East Battery), the Roper House (9 East Battery), the William Ravenel House (13 East Battery),the Edmondston-Alston House (21 East Battery), the Charles Drayton House (25 East Battery), the George Chisolm House (39 East Battery), the Villa Margherita (4 South Battery), the William Washington House (8 South Battery), the Col. John A.S. Ashe House (26 South Battery), the James Spear House (30 South Battery), and the Col. John Ashe House (32 South Battery).