. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . MAJOR-GENERAL ALFRED H. TERRY AND STAFF AT FORT FISHER (104) ENGLISH ARMSTRONG GUN IN FORT FISHER. RUINS OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FROM THE CAPITOL SHELLED BY SHERMAN, FEBRUARY l6, 1865 PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY BRADY WHILE RUINS WERE SMOKING THE final blows of the Civil War came quick and sharp. Grant had takenPetersburg; Thomas had annihilated the Confederate forces under Hoodalong the Mississippi River; Sherman had swept through Georgia andoverrun the Carolinas. Exactly four years after the inauguratio
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . MAJOR-GENERAL ALFRED H. TERRY AND STAFF AT FORT FISHER (104) ENGLISH ARMSTRONG GUN IN FORT FISHER. RUINS OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FROM THE CAPITOL SHELLED BY SHERMAN, FEBRUARY l6, 1865 PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY BRADY WHILE RUINS WERE SMOKING THE final blows of the Civil War came quick and sharp. Grant had takenPetersburg; Thomas had annihilated the Confederate forces under Hoodalong the Mississippi River; Sherman had swept through Georgia andoverrun the Carolinas. Exactly four years after the inauguration of Jef-ferson Davis as President of the Confederacy, historic Columbia and Charleston,South Carolina, surrendered. The closing days sowed flame and war cameras followed Shermans Army into Columbia and the old negativestell the tragedy of the destroyed Confederate cities. One of them here reproducedis historic Secession Hall in ruins. It was here that the first Ordinance of Seces-sion was passed. This view shows the historic edifice as it appeared when theUnion troops took possession of the city. Adjoining the Hall is the ruins ofCentral Church, and in the background
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