Preparations for the Flag Raising Ceremony at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 14, 1865, zoomable photograph

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Library of Congress

Notes

Sized, cropped, and adjusted by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 13, 1865.

Depicted ContentEdwin Stanton, Orders for ceremonies at Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina

Depicted ContentReverend Henry Ward Beecher's remarks at the ceremony restoring the flag to Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 14, 1865

Depicted ContentIn Charleston Harbor, General Robert Anderson re-hoists the United States flag over Fort Sumter

Image type

photograph

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Original caption

Charleston, South Carolina. Flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sumter. Awaiting the arrival of Gen. Anderson and invited guests to inaugurate the ceremony of raising the flag

Source citation

Civil War Glass Negative Collection, Library of Congress