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1. Harper's Weekly

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1861
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[Color image.] Caption: 'The house-tops in Charleston during the bombardment of Sumter.' [full date May 4, 1861.]

2. Frank Leslie's

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1861
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Caption: 'The Richland Rifles enjoying the "after-dinner hour," at their quarters on Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbor, S.C. From a sketch taken on the spot by our Special Artist now in Charleston.' [full date March 2, 1861.]

3. Harper's Weekly

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1861
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Caption: 'Colonel William Wilson and his staff (Wilson's Fighting Brigade)--[see page 311].' Identified in image: Quartermaster Bradley, Lieutenant Colonel Creighton, Adjutant James J. Hearey, Paymaster Peter Duffy, Col. William Wilson, Surgeon D.C. Pease and Major William Newby. [full date May 18, 1861.]

4. Harper's Weekly

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1861
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Caption: 'Reinforcement of Fort Pickens by Company A, First Artillery, on Saturday morning, April 13--Sketched by an Engineer Officer of the "Brooklyn."--[See Next Page].' [full date May 18,1861.]

5. Harper's Weekly

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1861
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Caption: 'The Battery or Park Promenade at Charleston, South Carolina, during the bombardment of Fort Sumter--Sketched by our Special Artist--[see next page].' [full date May 18, 1861.]

6. Harper's Weekly

Date:
1861
Description:
Caption: 'Caption: 'The rifled cannon which did so much execution on Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina'--[From a Sketch by our Special Artist.]' [full date May 18,1861.]

7. Harper's Weekly

Date:
1861
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Caption: 'D.F. Jamieson, President of the South Carolina Convention, and Minister of War.--[see page 78.]' [full date February 2, 1861.]

8. Harper's Weekly

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1861
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Caption: 'Fort Johnson, opposite Fort Sumter, harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.--[see page 40.]' [full date January 19, 1861.]

9. Harper's Weekly

Date:
1861
Description:
Caption: 'Fort Johnson, as seen from Fort Sumter.--[drawn by an Officer of Major Anderson's Command.]' [full date March 2, 1861.]

10. Harper's Weekly

Date:
1861
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Caption: 'Gorge of Fort Sumter--sally-port.--drawn by an Officer of Major Anderson's Command.--[see page 49.] [full date January 26, 1861.]

11. Harper's Weekly

Date:
1861
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Caption: 'Map of Charleston Harbor, showing Fort Sumter and the Confederate batteries.--[see page 257.]' [full date April 27, 1861.]

12. Harper's Weekly

Date:
1861
Description:
Caption: 'Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.--[drawn by an Officer of Major Anderson's Command.]' [full date March 23, 1861.]

13. Harper's Weekly

Date:
1861
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Caption: 'The city of Charleston, South Carolina, looking seaward, and showing the burned district.--[see next page.]' Identified in image are: Broad Street, "Mercury" office, Custom-house, Castle Pinckney, Fort Moultrie, Fort Sumter and Morris Island. [full date December 28, 1861.]

14. Harper's Weekly

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1861
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Caption: 'Firing on the "Star of the West" from the South Carolina battery on Morris Island, January 10, 1861.--[see page 54.]' [full date January 26, 1861]

15. Harper's Weekly

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1861
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Caption: 'The Washington Artillery of Charleston, S.C.--[see page 78.]' [full date February 2, 1861.]

16. Harper's Weekly

Date:
1861
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Caption: 'Fort Moultrie, as seen from Fort Sumter.--[drawn by an Officer of Major Anderson's Command.]' [full date March 2, 1861.]

18. Frank Leslie's

Date:
1861
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Caption: 'Scene on the arrival of Lieutenant Hall, U.S.A., with despatches (sic) from Major Anderson for Governor Pickens, at the Executive Mansion, Charleston, S.C., immediately after the firing on the Star of the West.--from a sketch by our Special Artist.--see page 151.' [full date January 26, 1861.]

19. Harper's Weekly

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1861
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Caption: 'Fort Sumter--the casemates: hoisting a gun.' [full date January 26, 1861.]

20. Frank Leslie's

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1861
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Caption: 'The Southern steamship Columbia. Captain Berry, on shore in Maffit's Bay, in the harbor of Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 23.--from a sketch by our Special Artist in Charleston.--see page 194.' [full date February 16, 1861.]