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Creator E. Sasche & Co.
Contributor Provenance:: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Title Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, MD. [graphic].
Publisher Baltimore: Lith by E. Sacshe & Co., 104 S. Charles St.,
Date c1862.
Extent 1 print: lithograph; 12 x 19 cm.(4.75 x 7 in.)
Description Bird's-eye view of the enclosed fort at at the Inner Harbor. Cannons line the walls of the facility and soldiers march the grounds. Also shows civilians promenading the streets, and cityscape, ports, and ships along the harbor in the background. Federal Hill was converted to military use in 1861 when the area was occupied under the command of General Benjamin F. Butler following the Riots of April 1861. The fort's cannons consequently pointed toward the city to suppress Southern sympathy.
Notes Create postfreeze.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events.
Trimmed.
Genre Lithographs 1860-1870.
Bird's eye view prints 1860-1870.
Subject Forts & fortifications--Maryland--Baltimore.
Spatial coverage Fort Federal Hill (Md.)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities--Union.
Inner Harbor (Baltimore, Md.)
Baltimore (Md.)--Pictorial works.
Is part of Civil War Miscellany
Has format TMP.objres.4163.jpg
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. GC - Civil War - Forts & fortifications [5779.F.78b]
Accession number 5779.F.78b

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