From Flickr: “LC-DIG-PPMSCA-31065” by Photograph Curator

LC-DIG-PPMSCA-31065: The Great Fight at Charleston, South Carolina, April 7th, 1863: Between 9 United States Navy “Ironclads,”
under the command of Admiral Samuel Dupont; and Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and the Cummings Point Batteries in possession of the Confederate Rebels. Published by Currier & Ives, New York, 1863. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt