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Saturday, December 27, 2014
Three Men Posing With Two Mortars in the Trapier Mortar Battery on Morris Island Shortly After the Surrender of the Nearby Fort Sumter by Union Forces in Charleston Harbor (1861)
Three men posing with two mortars in the Trapier Mortar Battery on Morris Island shortly after the surrender of the nearby Fort Sumter by Union forces in Charleston Harbor, 1861. The battery fired its mortars at Fort Sumter in the bombardment leading to its surrender. The darkroom used by the photographers to develop this photograph is visible behind the mortar in the background. By Osborn and Durbec. From The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography.
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