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Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Batteries of the Confederate States, April 13, 1861

soldiers defending the fort as cannon fire is shot from a ship in the distance

Caption: Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Batteries of the Confederate States, April 13, 1861.

Source: Illustration from Harper's Weekly, [April 27, 1861], page 264-265.