Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina diarist 199 and Drawing Nov 25

199 and Drawing Nov 25 1832

An ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue

Attributed to Thomas Huson

'The Gourmands'

his first at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo

Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina diarist 199 and Drawing Nov 25Fort 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.