Charleston South Carolina. Flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sumter. (Generals Robert A – Antique Wall Art
(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 South Carolina. Flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sumter. (Generals Robert A comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina. Flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sumter. (Generals Robert A
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Few places carry as much weight in the Civil War as Fort Sumter, and this stereograph records the moment the Union reclaimed it. On April 14, 1865, four years after Major Robert Anderson's garrison surrendered the fort, the American flag was raised over its walls in a ceremony with Anderson and a general the caption identifies as Gillmore, probably Quincy Gillmore, whose campaign had ended Confederate control of the harbor. James F. Gibson made the pair of glass negatives using the wet collodion process, and the two plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope to give the scene depth.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Charleston S.C. April 14 1865. Flag-raising ceremony. (Gen. Anderson & Gillmore[?] near center of photo preparing to raise the flag.). Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,535 × 4,751 px · prints to 15 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52602 |
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