Charleston S.C. Site of the night attack on Fort Sumter September 8 1863 – 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. Site of the night attack on Fort Sumter September 8 1863, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston S.C. Site of the night attack on Fort Sumter September 8 1863
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Titled for Charleston, South Carolina, this stereograph points to the site of a night attack on Fort Sumter on September 8, 1863. That Union effort to storm the harbor fortress by boat failed with heavy losses, and the harbor remained contested for the rest of the war. The pair of images dates to 1865, after Union forces had occupied Charleston in February, and was published by E. & H.T. Anthony, a New York firm known for stereo views. Seen through a stereoscope, the two halves give the harbor and its battered defenses a depth that a flat print cannot.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| 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) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Forts & fortifications.United States--South Carolina--Charleston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,174 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46486 |
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