Message #230186

[Ashley Washington]

Battered Fort Sumter, 1863

Image Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

English artist Frank Vizetelly covered the fighting in Charleston through most of 1863 and produced many eyewitness drawings of the war-ravaged harbor.

This colored sketch of a battered but still defiant Fort Sumter became one of the most enduring scenes of the doomed effort to hold the fort for the Confederacy.

(Interactive Map: Battlefields of the Civil War.)

Updated April 12, 2011