House where the Union officers were confined under fire, Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures House where the Union officers were confined under fire, Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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House where the Union officers were confined under fire, Broad Street, Charleston, S.C.
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The record names a specific house on Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina, where Union officers were held while Federal guns shelled the city. In 1863, Confederate authorities moved captured Union officers into buildings within range of the bombardment, a move meant to deter the attacks, and the Union fire went on anyway. The stereograph dates to about 1865, after the siege had ended, and it was issued by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., a New York firm that sold stereo views of Civil War sites to a wide public. The image shows how the damaged city looked to visitors and buyers in the war's final months.
| Created / published | c1865. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1860-1870.Stereographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities--Confederate. Charleston (S.C.)--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 698 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163023 |
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