#fort sumter

[littlelazylarkspur]

Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina (2019)

[usnatarchives]

Fort Sumter 🏰

Before Fort Sumter became a symbol of the Civil War, it was a feat of engineering. Built on a manmade island in Charleston Harbor, the fort was designed to protect the U.S. coastline after the War of 1812, but construction was slow, spanning decades.

By the late 1850s, Fort Sumter still wasn't finished, yet its walls would soon be tested. In April 1861, Confederate forces opened fire, marking the first shots of the Civil War. The unfinished fort was now at the center of a national crisis.

Explore original engineering drawings, correspondence, and rare visuals of Fort Sumter's construction from the National Archives' holdings in this deep dive on the Unwritten Record blog: https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2018/04/06/building-fort-sumter

[todaysdocument]

Interior View of Fort Sumter after Its Evacuation by Major Robert Anderson, 1st Artillery. U.S.A. Commanding

Record Group 121: Records of the Public Buildings ServiceSeries: Photographs of Federal and Other Buildings in the United States

Original caption: interior View of FORT SUMTER on the 14th April 1847 after its evacuation by Maj. Robert Anderson, 1st Artl. U.S.A, Com. of

Showing the north end of West Barracks, with the two tiers of Armaments and Barbette of adjacent north channel face.

Photograph of a ruined fort. The Confederate flag flies above it.

[rebelyells]

April 12-14 1861 Fort Sumter was fired upon. Protective Tariffs that oppressed the South were the cause of the war. Greedy industrialists in the North wanted the cotton for their factories in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. No mention of slavery was found in the Tariff Act seen below. Take note of the Seven Star First National flag at the Fort!

Tariff of Abominations - Wikipedia

[petervintonjr]

Learn about daring Civil War hero (and eventual U.S. Congressman!) Robert Smalls at: https://www.petervintonjr.com/blm/lesson107.html

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Sandbars where the ocean meets the sky off of Fort Sumter in South Carolina. December 2024.

Fujifilm X-T50 with XF 18-55 F/2.8-4 lens.

[turtleislandhistory]

April 12, 1861

Confederate South Carolina militia fire on Fort Sumter, signalling the start of the American Civil War.

[floridaboiler]

On this day in 1861, America's Civil War begins as Confederate guns open fire on Fort Sumter. No one dies in the two-day bombardment, but hundreds of thousands will perish in the resulting four-year conflict.

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