. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . merican coast were creating con-sternation. On the first anniversaryof the Fall of Fort Sumter the Na-tional navy, in an attempt to sweepthe Confederates from the Atlanticcoast, bombarded Fort Pulaski inGeorgia. All day long the bom-bardment was terrific and firing didnot cease until nightfall, when fiveof the guns of the fortress were night long four of Gillmoresguns fired at intervals of fifteen ortwenty minutes and at daybreak theonslaught became furious. At twoin the afternoon a white fl
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . merican coast were creating con-sternation. On the first anniversaryof the Fall of Fort Sumter the Na-tional navy, in an attempt to sweepthe Confederates from the Atlanticcoast, bombarded Fort Pulaski inGeorgia. All day long the bom-bardment was terrific and firing didnot cease until nightfall, when fiveof the guns of the fortress were night long four of Gillmoresguns fired at intervals of fifteen ortwenty minutes and at daybreak theonslaught became furious. At twoin the afternoon a white flag appearedfrom its walls. The spoils of victorywere the fort, forty-seven heavyguns, a large supply of fixed ammu-nition, forty thousand pounds of gunpowder, a large quantity of commis-sary stores; three hundred prisonersand the port of Savannah was sealedagainst blockade runners—all thiswith the loss of but one killed on eachside. Brady seems to have had un-usual foresight. He was nearlyalways in the right place at theright time and these negatives pic-ture the ruins of Fort
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