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Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Batteries of the Confederate States

The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in 1861

CREDIT: "Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Batteries of the Confederate States." Illustration in Harper's Weekly, April 27, 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.



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