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Title: The siege of Charleston. Bombardment of Fort Sumter, and batteries Wagner and Gregg by the Union batteries on Morris Island, under command of General Gilmore._ August 1863
Description: Shows Union soldiers at the island encampment firing several lines of cannons at the forts and batteries in the distance. Other soldiers man a barricade behind the cannons. Also shows a steamer and submarines firing from the harbor. Includes the names of the forts printed below the image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War materials., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reaccessioned as P.9177.15.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Charleston [5794.F.2]

Title: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor. 12th & 13th of April 1861
Description: View of the opening engagement of the Civil War showing Confederate soldiers at Fort Moultrie, under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard, manning and firing cannons at Fort Sumter in the background. Also shows the Confederate battery, Cummings Point, under a cloud of smoke from Union fire. Includes the names of the battery and forts printed below the image. Union forces under the command of Major Robert Anderson surrendered the fort on April 13, 1861., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War material., Trimmed.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Fort Sumter [5794.F.3]

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.
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War materials., 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."
Creator: Currier & Ives., creator
Date: c1863.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Charleston [5794.F.1]

Title: Interior of Fort Sumter during the bombardment, April 12th 1861
Description: Shows Major Robert Anderson, Union commander of the fort, overseeing his soldiers manning cannons during the first battle of the Civil War. The men gather cannon balls, hold sponge-rammers at the ready, and fire the cannons. The fort fell to Confederates following 33 hours of bombardment on April 13th, 1861., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War material.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Fort Sumter [5794.F.4]

Title: Victorious bombardment of Port Royal, S.C. Nov. 7th, 1861 by the United States fleet, under command of Commodore Dupont
Description: Battle scene showing a Union warship firing upon the Confederate fort, Fort Walker, amidst streams of smoke and shell bursts., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - P [5779.F.44]

Title: The gallant charge of the Fifty Fourth Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment On the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw
Description: Commemorative print depicting the African American regiment's heralded battle at Fort Wagner at the moment of the death of their white commander, Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw, his hand on his chest from the fatal gunshot, falls back on top of the parapet. His color-bearer holding the American flag inscribed, "54th Mass." continues to charge. Gory hand-to-hand battle and bayonet fighting proceeds around them. Soldiers fall to their death. The battle at Fort Wagner fomented Union support of African American regiments and immortalized Shaw as a martyr for the cause., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress i the year 1863, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, p. 50., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Fort Wagner [5779.F.38]

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