fortsumter

10 photos and 14 illustrations tagged fortsumter, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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1861

2013

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Acoustic Bubble said:
Wouldn't it be wonderful if these pictures were posted a little larger? Screen resolutions nowadays make for very small presentation of images...
swanq said:
If you follow the persistent URL link, in this case to hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s01323 , you can get access to the source TIFF from which this size was generated.

robertgray42 said:
The wooden gun carriage was damaged by Confederate forces when they withdrew from Charleston. Until repaired, this renders the piece useless.
Steve Woolf said:
On April 12, 1861, at 4:30 a.m., Fort Johnson's batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter, seen left of the howitzer, and continued firing for 34 straight hours, signaling the beginning of the American Civil War.
Andrei Goncharik said:
www.flickr.com/photos/193005003@N06/52453653855/in/photol...