Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). View from south parapet of Fort Wagner on Mor – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). View from south parapet of Fort Wagner on Mor. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). View from south parapet of Fort Wagner on Mor
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From the south parapet of Fort Wagner, this stereograph looks out across Morris Island toward the approaches to Charleston. The earthwork was the site of a costly Union assault on July 18, 1863, led by the 54th Massachusetts, and Confederate forces abandoned it that September after a prolonged Union siege. By 1865, when this view was made, the fort had become a landmark of the war's final stretch. The image survives as two glass negatives meant to be seen together for depth, and the record notes that it was once credited to Alexander Gardner.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Morris Island S.C. View from south parapet of Fort Wagner. 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 | 4,371 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47660 |
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