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Civil War Illustrations

Main Battery at Fort Sumter

Interior section of Fort Sumter, two men stand behind a large cannon aimed out a hole in the wall

Caption: Main Battery at Fort Sumter, Bearing on Fort Moultrie and the Channel – From a sketch by an officer of Major Anderson's command.

Source: Illustration from Harper's Weekly, January 26, 1861, page 57.