Charleston S.C. Crowd inside Fort Sumter; another view – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Charleston S.C. Crowd inside Fort Sumter; another view, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston S.C. Crowd inside Fort Sumter; another view
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Fort Sumter's battered walls in Charleston Harbor form the setting, with a crowd gathered inside the fort itself. The timing points to the flag-raising of April 14, 1865, when Union forces returned to the fort four years after Major Robert Anderson surrendered it to Confederate batteries, and the same flag Anderson had lowered was raised again. Henry Ward Beecher gave the principal address at that ceremony. Because the record catalogs the view under commemoration and military parades, it shows a moment when the war's opening battleground was being reclaimed as a Union triumph.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| 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 | 1,254 × 1,366 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46065 |
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