From "War Memories" catalog: This is a view of a portion of the exterior of the celebrated Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, S.C. The heavy batteries on Morris Island aided by a fleet of Monitors, gave this fort a terrible bombardment. It was, at the commencement of this bombardment, a handsome, symmetrical fort. This photograph was made after the bombardment, and shows what a fearful pounding the fort has received; in fact it is scarcely more than a mass of ruins. Shot, shell, and dismounted and broken cannon are scattered about like leaves of the forest.
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Title from "War Memories" catalog.
"War Memories" catalog number: 6052
Handwritten on item back: 398
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"War memories, the war for the Union 1861-1865 : catalogue of original photographic war views : photographic history of the war for the Union." Taylor & Huntington, 1890, Hartford, Conn.
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