Floating Battery, Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbor

Artist Alma A. Pelot (American, active 1860 - 1900)

Date1861

MediumSalt print

DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches (15.88 x 18.73 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.462

InscribedTitled Front of Mount Dated "April 16, 1861"

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DescriptionImage of a floating vessel with four evenly spaced square windows and a flag on the roof.Published References

Published References

For more on this battery, see "A Visit to Morris Island Batteries and Fort Sumter," Charleston Daily Courier [South Carolina] (April 18, 1861): 1; "Fort Sumter," Charleston Daily Courier (April 16, 1861): 1; "Forts Sumter and Moultrie and The Floating Battery!" Charleston Daily Courier (April 25, 1861): 1; E. A. Pollard, Southern History of the War (New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1866). Bob Zeller, The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005): 42.

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