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Charleston S.C. Graveyard of the ruined Circular Church – Antique Print

Charleston S.C. Graveyard of the ruined Circular Church, 1865 — historic photograph
Charleston S.C. Graveyard of the ruined Circular Church, 1865. Historic photograph from the Charleston 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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The subject is the graveyard behind the Circular Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which was left standing after the church itself had been ruined. The congregation dated back to the early 1800s, and by 1865 its burial ground, with headstones and older markers, had become a quiet reminder of the city's losses during the war. Charleston was the birthplace of secession and endured a long Union siege and repeated shelling, so pictures like this one showed civilians the damage without the battlefield. This stereograph is a wet collodion glass negative issued by E. & H.T. Anthony, a New York firm that sold many war views to a home audience eager to see the South's ruined cities.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0642 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Churches.United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,182 × 1,356 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46462

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