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Fort Pulaski battle scars, Savannah, Ga. – Historic Print

Fort Pulaski battle scars, Savannah, Ga., [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
Fort Pulaski battle scars, Savannah, Ga., [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Savannah 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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Fort Pulaski battle scars, Savannah, Ga. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Fort Pulaski battle scars, Savannah, Ga.

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Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island at the mouth of the Savannah River, still shows the damage from its 1862 siege in the brick walls pictured here. Union forces under Quincy Gillmore bombarded the fort with rifled cannon, breaching its masonry in about 30 hours, and the Confederate garrison surrendered in April 1862. The episode showed that rifled artillery could defeat thick brick walls, which changed fortification design. This Detroit Publishing Company view, made between 1900 and 1910, captures the fort decades later, when its scarred walls had become a historic site.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 4184" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070133. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsForts & fortifications. War damage. Fort Pulaski (Ga.)--Siege, 1862.United States--Georgia--Fort Pulaski.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71726

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