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Fort Sumter, December 9th 1863, Interior view of Three Gun Battery – Historic Photograph Print

Fort Sumter, December 9th 1863, Interior view of Three Gun Battery, 1864 January 21. — historic drawing
Fort Sumter, December 9th 1863, Interior view of Three Gun Battery, 1864 January 21.. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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This drawing shows the interior of the Three Gun Battery at Fort Sumter, the masonry fort on an island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, as it looked in December 1863. By then the Confederate garrison had held the fort through a long campaign of Union bombardment, and the battered walls and gun emplacements reflected that strain. The sheet is signed by J.R. Key and dated June 1864, and it carries approval notes from Confederate officers at Weldon, N.C., and Charleston, which suggests it was prepared as an official military record of the fort's condition.

Created / published1864 January 21.
Medium1 drawing on white paper mounted on tan paper : black and brown ink ; 31.4 x 45.3 cm. (sheet).
GenreDrawings American 1860-1870.
NotesSigned lower left of image : J.R. Key, Jun[e] 21/64. Title inscribed on tan paper below image. Inscribed in brown ink lower left: Weldon, N.C. April 27 1864. Approved G.T. Beauregard Genl. Com[dr?]. Inscribed in brown ink lower right: Charleston April 22 1864. Approved by D.B. [Harris?] Col & Inf Engr. Source unknown.
SubjectsForts & fortifications--1860-1870. Artillery (Weaponry)--1860-1870. Military uniforms--Confederate--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities--Confederate. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment & supplies. Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--1860-1870.United States--South Carolina--Charleston
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,104 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110805

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