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Fort Sumter from the Battery
About this illustration
The Illustrated London News, May 16, 1863.
- Date created
- May 1863
- Location
- Charleston, South Carolina
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by National Park Service
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- North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1860–1876). Topics include debates over secession, battles and strategies, the war in North Carolina, the soldier's experience, the home front, freedom and civil rights for former slaves, Reconstruction, and the "redemption" of the state by conservatives. (Page 1.3)
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A view of the battle of Fort Sumter from the Charleston Battery. The caption reads, “The civil war in America: Attack by the Federal ironclads on the harbour defences of Charleston, three p.m. of the 7th of April.”
