Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
[Fort Sumter, ruins of officer's quarters after flag staff was shot aw...
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). No. 13 inscribed on verso. Attributed to photographers Osborn & Durbec by matching image in LOT 14110-1, no. 50. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collecti... More
South angle of Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C.
Photograph shows the damaged exterior wall of Fort Sumter with an embrasure on the left after the bombardment in April 1861. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). "No. 31." Photographer attributio... More
Fort Sumter--after the evacuation by the Confederate forces
Photograph shows two men in a rowboat and another man standing on a sandbar on Morris Island opposite war damaged Fort Sumter.
[Damage to exterior wall of Fort Sumter from bombardment, Charleston, ...
Written in pencil on back of the mount: Fort Sumter after the bombardment. Attributed to Quinby & Co. based on similar image with Quinby label offered for sale on "Museum Quality Americana" website, July 2012.... More
Charleston, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter
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View from the parapet of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor...
Stereograph showing men and women spectators on the parapet in Fort Sumter on the occasion of the anniversary of Major General Anderson's surrender four years earlier. Federal sailing ships in the distance are... More
[Charleston, S.C. View of ruined buildings through porch of the Circul...
Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Charleston, S.C. 1863-1865. General Gillmore's success at Fort Pulaski earned him the ... More
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter
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Charleston, South Carolina. Photographer [Samuel Cooley] on parapet of...
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Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter
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[Inside view of a fort after the battle, possibly Sumter, shows fortif...
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff based on alternate view. Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection. Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.
Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C., April...
Stereograph showing a gathering of specators at the flag raising ceremony in Fort Sumter on the occasion of the anniversary of Major General Anderson's surrender four years earlier. Part of series: The War for ... More
Fort Sumter, 1861, Confederate States of America.
Photograph shows a wide angle view of Fort Sumter after the bombardment in April 1861. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). "No. 47." From series, "Charleston & Vicinity." Forms part of: The Robi... More
Fort Sumter. IX. 10, Confederate States of America.
Three views of the fort. Signed on verso: Return to Mr. Alfred Waud South Orange, N.J. Titled inscribed on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.119) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), looking toward Charleston
Stereograph showing gabions and ruins inside Fort Sumter facing the entrance. Soldier being photographed on the parapet by Samuel Cooley. No. 339, part of series: War Views. Handwritten on verso: Miller, vol. ... More
Fort Moultrie, no. 3, Confederate States of America.
Photograph shows the an interior view of Fort Moultrie after the surrender of Fort Sumter. Soldiers stand amidst the artillery. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Date of photo based on newspap... More
Mr. Edmund Ruffin, said to have fired first shot against Fort Sumter
Edmund Ruffin, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front. No. 4945. No. 836.
Sea face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter)
Stereograph showing ruins of artillery among the rocks on the exterior of Fort Sumter. No. 348, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LC-B811-305... More
Sea face of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), shewing (i.e. showing) broken ...
Stereograph showing debris among the rocks on the exterior of Fort Sumter. No. 347, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. Attributed to George N. Barnard, based on LC-B811-3052. Forms par... More
[Charleston, S.C. Site of the night attack on Fort Sumter, September 8...
Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1862-1863.
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter during...
Title from similar neg: LC-B811-3533. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 3533. Image is similar to 3140. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
Interior of Fort Sumter in April 1861 after its surrender by U.S. garr...
No. 4798. See also LOT 4166-C no. 219 for full stereo view. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Views of Fort Sumter from drawings
Photograph of drawing showing ruins of Fort Sumter from Charleston Harbor with a Confederate flag waving on the left. No. B698. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Fort Sumter, Charleston... More
The new batteries erected on Morris Island for the defence of Charlest...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 March 30, p. 293.
[Morris Island, South Carolina. Naval Battery. Two 8-inch Parrot Rifle...
A group of men standing next to a pile of logs. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Plan of the attack on Ft. Sumter, April 6th, 1863.
Map shows a regional view of Charleston Harbor including Confederate fortifications and Union naval vessels. This April 1863 atttack by Union ironclads was unsuccessful. Color coding indicates the location of U... More
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. View from parapet of Fort Sumter th...
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View of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), on the parapet, overlooking the ha...
Stereograph showing damaged gabions amid the fortifications on the parapet of Fort Sumter. Photographer Samuel Cooley sets up his camera in the distance. No. 3053. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photogr... More
The end of the rebellion in the United States, 1865 / C. Kimmel.
A sequel to Kimmel's grand image "The Outbreak of the Rebellion in the United States" (no. 1865-19), issued the year before. The artist depicts in symbolic terms the downfall of the Confederacy. Columbia, crown... More
Oldest U.S. Navy officer poses for bust by noted Russian sculptor. Rea...
A group of three men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gun battery at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Fort Sumter: Charleston Harbor, S.C., Confederate States of America.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2267
The Union volunteer, Confederate States of America.
One of several patriotic prints issued by Currier & Ives in May 1861, closely following the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter and President Lincoln's appeal to the states for troops to suppress the rebelli... More
Charleston, South Carolina. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter
Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Sumter, Interior view. Photographer's name attributed in Civil War caption books. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: copyright. Beacon at Ft. Sumter. Two plates ... More
Charleston, South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter
Stereo filed in LOT 4166C. Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Sumter, Exterior view. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: copyright. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3051A) and right (LC-B811-3051B) ha... More
Charleston, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter
Stereo filed in LOT 4166C. Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Sumter BPCW. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3132B) and right (LC-B811-3132A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1... More
Charleston, S.C. Palmetto reinforcements on the channel side of Fort S...
Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Charleston, South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter
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Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter
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Interior of Fort Sumter: during the bombardment, April 12th 1861
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3352
Interior of Fort Sumter: during the bombardment, April 12th 1861
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3352
Charleston, South Carolina. Flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sumter. Awai...
Stereograph showing a crowd gathered on the ground and along the parapet for General Anderson's raising of the American flag that four years earlier the Confederates had compelled him to take down. Part of seri... More
Reply to the bonnie blue flag words by Mrs. C. Sterett; music by M. H....
Caption title. Series: Songs for the Union.
Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the ...
Photograph shows three Confederate soldiers amidst the fortifications at their camp at Cummings Point on Morris Island in preparation for the capture of Fort Sumter. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015... More
Negroes mounting Cannon in the works for the attack on Ft. Sumter 1861...
Signed upper left: W. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1861. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
East face of Fort Sumter - Charleston, S.C.
Photograph shows a view of the eastern, or sea face of Fort Sumter after the bombardment.
Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C., April...
Stereograph showing spectators surrounding Generals Robert Anderson and Quincy A. Gillmore at the flag raising ceremony in Fort Sumter on the occasion of the anniversary of Major General Anderson's surrender fo... More
Fort Sumpter [i.e. Sumter], Confederate States of America.
Photograph shows a group of men, possibly including Governor Francis Pickens and state Senator Wade Hampton, inspecting a 10 inch Columbiad inside of Fort Sumter after the bombardment. Purchase; Robin Stanford;... More
Outside view, Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.
Photograph shows a group of men amidst the ruins and damaged artillery on exterior of Fort Sumter. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.
Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), looking toward Morris Island
Stereograph showing the interior and parapet of Fort Sumter with gabions used as reinforcements in bombproof construction. No. 343, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. Attributed to Geo... More
Major Robt. Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter lith. of L.N. Rosenthal,...
Print shows Robert Anderson, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing military uniform with sword cradled in right arm. Publication date based on variant impression. Quotation marks inscribed in ink around ... More
Morris Island, South Carolina. Battery Rosecrans. Three 100-pounder Pa...
Photographer name from annotations on other negatives in this series (LC-B8156). Title and date from corresponding photographic print in LOT 4196. Annotation from negative, inked on emulsion: 24. Credit line: C... More
The first 300 pound Parrott gun. The gun is named Colonel Brayton. It ...
Photograph shows a 300 pound Parrott rifle, labeled "Col. Brayton" in a Union Army mortar battery on Morris Island, possibly Fort Putnam. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Printed on mount: Pho... More
Charleston, S.C. Crowd inside Fort Sumter; another view
Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milh... More
Charleston, South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter
Stereo filed in LOT 4166C. Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Sumter. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3052B) and right (LC-B811-3052A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-C. Credit li... More
Charleston, S.C. Interior of Fort Sumter with gabions; another view
Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, [Charleston, S.C.], Confederate States of America.
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Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, Confederate States of America.
Interior view of fort looking out across Charleston Harbor. Soldiers passing sentry, in right foreground. Soldiers on picket duty near cannons, center, Military standard flying upper left, Another fort in backg... More
[Inside view of a fort after the battle, possibly Sumter, with four vi...
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Officers of U.S. Garrison, Fort Sumter, April, 1861
Photograph showing group portrait. In front row: Capt. A. Doubleday, Major R. Anderson, Asst. Secry. S. W. Crawford, Capt. J. S. Foster. From left in back row: Capt. T. Seymour, Lt. G. W. Snyder, Lt. J. C. Davi... More
Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C., April...
Stereograph showing spectators surrounding Generals Robert Anderson and Quincy A. Gillmore at the flag raising ceremony in Fort Sumter on the occasion of the anniversary of Major General Anderson's surrender fo... More
Second fall of Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.
Music associated with the Union side cover missing
Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Interior of Fort Moultrie, look...
Title supplied by Richard W. Hatcher, III, Historian, Fort Sumter National Monument, 2009. Caption on negative sleeve: Interior view of Fort Johnson, Morris Island, S.C. Looking toward Fort Sumter. Two plates f... More
Fort Sumter from Sullivan's Island, Charleston, S.C
Also available as photographic print in LOT 9193 with copy negative LC-USZ62-55308 (b&w film copy neg.). Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-28946. Detroit Publis... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More