We spent a lovely day in Charleston seeing Fort Sumter where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Betty is standing on top of the parking garage with the harbor and the Ravenal Bridge in the background. It was a beautiful sunny day, it felt like California!
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| Part of the Union reinforcement for Fort Sumter |
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| Fort Sumter |
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| One of the seven sites that shelled Fort Sumter for 32 hours to start the Civil War. These positions were pointed at the weaker portion, the backside of the fort. Col Anderson and the Union garrison surrendered the fort when they ran out of powder. |
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| The Stars and Stripes and SC flags over the fort. |
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| Damage from shelling when the Union forces recaptured the fort. The walls were 3X higher than what appears here. The rubble was removed in 1870. |
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| Rifled and banded gun at Ft. Sumter. This is a cast iron gun. The band around the barrel is supposed to allow a bigger powder load and more muzzle velocity. I doubt this based on the apparent thickness of the band. I wonder how many of these cast iron guns exploded. |
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| Shell stuck in the wall at Ft Sumter. |
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| The USS Yorktown museum ship on display in Charleston Harbor |
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