Image: Fort sumter 1861

Description: Confederate flag flying over Fort Sumter -- photo from 1861. Image is a detail from a stereoscopic photograph taken by Alma A. Pelot on the morning of April 15, 1861.
Title: Fort sumter 1861
Credit: Bob Zeller, The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005, p. 42. (Interior of Fort Sumter.—Stereoscopic Views of the Ruins Inside.), Chronicles of the American Civil War, April 16, 2005, retrieved May 11, 2008.
Author: Alma A. Pelot
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