South Carolina Gallery

Flag of Fort Sumter, 1861

Fort Sumter's US flag after the bombardment, as raised in New York in 1861 by Major Anderson, Sumter commander.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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French colonists building a ship, South Carolina, 1560s

Shipbuilding at Archer's Creek, South Carolina, by French colonists left behind by Ribault, 1562.
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US flag over Fort Sumter before the attack, 1860

Major Robert Anderson raising the Union fllag over Fort Sumter before the Confederate attack, December 27, 1860.
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