Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina diarist Depiction of the south elevation

Depiction of the south elevation and section of the second lighthouse built upon the Eddystone Rocks

'The Gourmands'

carte de visite

An ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue

Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina diarist Depiction of the south elevationFort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, 1862 1867. Fort Sumter was the place where the opening shots of the American Civil War were fired, on 12 April 1861. The following day the Union garrison surrendered. The Confederacy then held the fort until 17 February 1865. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862 1867.