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Henry Ward Beecher on the Speakers' Platform, Flag Raising at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 14, 1865, zoomable photograph

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Scanned by: 

Library of Congress

Notes: 

Sized, cropped, and adjusted by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 27, 2015.

Depicted content: 

• Edwin Stanton, Orders for ceremonies at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
• In Charleston Harbor, General Robert Anderson re-hoists the United States flag over Fort Sumter
• Beecher, Henry Ward
• Fort Sumter

Image type: 

photograph

Courtesy of: 

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Original caption: 

Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter during ceremony of raising flag

Source citation: 

Civil War Glass Negative Collection, Library of Congress