Details
Creator Currier & Ives.
Contributor Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Title The great fight at Charleston, S.C., April 7th, 1863 [graphic] : Between 9 United States "Iron-Clads," under the command of Admiral Dupont; and Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and the Cummings Point Batteries in possession of the rebels.
Publisher New York: Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St.,
Date c1863.
Extent 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 34 x 46 cm.(13.25 x 18 in.)
Description View showing the Union iron-clads, including the New Ironsides, ablaze and under heavy fire from the batteries at the harbor. Includes the names of the forts and "New Ironsides" printed below the image. Also includes several lines of text below the image describing the bravery of the vessels sustaining 300 rounds of fire for two hours before the order to retreat "on account of obstructions in the harbor."
Notes Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War materials.
Genre Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870.
Subject New Ironsides (Ironclad)
Forts & fortifications--South Carolina--Charleston.
Spatial coverage Cummings Point (Charleston, S.C.)
Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)
Fort Moultrie (S.C.)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities--Confederate.
Is part of Civil War Campaigns and Battles
Is referenced by Conningham, Currier & Ives 2611
Has format TMP.objres.4143.jpg
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Charleston [5794.F.1]
Accession number 5794.F.1