. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 191- AFTER ALL-ONE COUNTRY Here in Charleston, under the sunlight of a cloudless April day, rest the Parrott guns that from MorrisIsland pulverized the walls of Sumter, that hurled shot and shell across the bay—now silent, after of shade from the live-oak leaves fall upon the polished barrels that for eighteen months had roaredupon the distant foe. Now the silence is broken only by the rustle of the foliage above. Below, the daisiesare beginning to hide the newly springing grass. The Stars and Stripes draped a
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 191- AFTER ALL-ONE COUNTRY Here in Charleston, under the sunlight of a cloudless April day, rest the Parrott guns that from MorrisIsland pulverized the walls of Sumter, that hurled shot and shell across the bay—now silent, after of shade from the live-oak leaves fall upon the polished barrels that for eighteen months had roaredupon the distant foe. Now the silence is broken only by the rustle of the foliage above. Below, the daisiesare beginning to hide the newly springing grass. The Stars and Stripes draped above the nearest gun-carriage is once more the flag of the whole American people. Peace has indeed come, and all over theland thanksgiving is ascending like an incense from hearts that have known the anguish of endless separa-tion and the bitterness of unavailing sorrow—thanksgiving, too, for the issue of the conflict, which deter-mined thai America should forever wear the coronal of freedom and lead in the vanguard of human Although taken long before the days of moving-picture films, this series of photographs preserves the progression of the celebration onApril 14, 1865—the fourth anniversary of the evacuation of Sumter. The evening before, the news of Lees surrender had reachedCharleston and made the occasion one of national thanksgiving. The city was gay with flags; patriotic bands filled the air with music,and Dahlgrens fleet opened the day with the full national salute of twenty-one guns from every ship in the harbor. In Fort Sumter theReverend Matthias Harris, who had helped to raise the flag over the fort, four years before, opened the services with prayer. Dr. RichardS. Storrs read that ever-beautiful passage beginning: When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, wc were like them that dream.
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