Title

Defence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 1861 (c1880). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Defence of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 1861 (c1880). 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 17th February 1865. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1880

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C49_322

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (6,4Mb) / 11,0in x 17,6in / 3314 x 5278 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings people male man men fort lifting country guy weapon weapons defence fortification war union cannon location century soldiers soldier Charleston South Carolina concept ammunition defender artillery firing cannonball warfare United States of America United States 19th century bombardment weaponry American Civil War armaments Fort Sumter nineteenth century American America USA The Print Collector TGN engraving Unknown Edmund Edmund Ollier Ollier Edmund Ollier engraving