Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina diarist It was destroyed by fire

It was destroyed by fire during the night of 30th November 1936

'The Gourmands'

Attributed to Thomas Huson

carte de visite

An ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue

Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina diarist It was destroyed by fireFort 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.