Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston, color print – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston, color print. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston, color print
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The bombardment of Fort Sumter, which opened the American Civil War on April 12, 1861, was the event this print commemorates. Fort Sumter sits on a shoal at the entrance to Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, and the Confederate batteries that fired on it were ringing the harbor that morning. The federal garrison under Major Robert Anderson surrendered after roughly 34 hours of shelling, and no one on either side was killed in the fighting itself. Color prints of the scene were issued in the North soon after, and they helped turn a local standoff into a national story.
| Original scan | 5,733 × 4,083 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 19520u fort sumter |
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