Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). View of Forts Wagner & Gregg on Morris Island – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 South Carolina (vicinity). View of Forts Wagner & Gregg on Morris Island, 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 South Carolina (vicinity). View of Forts Wagner & Gregg on Morris Island
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Few places on the South Carolina coast saw more fighting than Fort Wagner, the earthwork on Morris Island that guarded the approach to Charleston harbor. Union assaults in 1863, including the charge led by the 54th Massachusetts, failed to take it, and Confederate forces abandoned it in early September 1863 as Union siege lines closed in. This stereograph pair, made by photographer James F. Gibson from two glass negatives, was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, where the halves merge into a single three-dimensional view of the battered works. Its caption dates the evacuation to September 6, and the picture shows the site as it stood during the postwar years.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: view Fort Wagner Morris Island S.C. Evacuated Sept. 6 1865. Morris Island vol. 5 page 118. 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 | 4,375 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52593 |
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