Charleston S.C. Flag-raising ceremony with Brevet Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson and Hen – Historic 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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Charleston S.C. Flag-raising ceremony with Brevet Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson and Hen comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston S.C. Flag-raising ceremony with Brevet Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson and Hen
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Few places in the war carried more symbolic weight than Fort Sumter, and this stereograph shows a flag-raising there under Brevet Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson, the officer who had surrendered the post in April 1861. Confederate batteries pounded the masonry for much of the war, and Union forces reclaimed the harbor forts in early 1865, so a ceremony at the fort was as much a statement about control of Charleston as a military event. Taken as a pair of plates, the image gives the damaged walls and open ground a sense of depth that a single print cannot.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Commemoration. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Forts & fortifications. Anniversaries. Military parades & ceremonies.United States--South Carolina--Charleston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,244 × 1,356 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46068 |
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