Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Moultrie. (Sullivans Is – 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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This historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Moultrie. (Sullivans Is brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Moultrie. (Sullivans Is
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Fort Moultrie sits on Sullivan's Island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, and this view turns inward to show the fort's interior rather than its outer walls. The fort had already earned a place in American memory by 1865: its palmetto-log predecessor held off a British naval attack in 1776, and it was later rebuilt and reinforced. The 1865 date places the photograph in the final months of the war, after Confederate forces abandoned Charleston in February and Union troops moved into the harbor defenses. The negative is a wet collodion glass plate, a process that required photographers to coat and expose plates while still damp, so the image's clarity reflects the technical demands of field work at the time.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior view of Fort Moultrie S.C. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 5,094 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47650 |
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