Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

Federal Battery on Morris Island, February 12, 1864.

February 12, 2014

Library of Congress,Miscellaneous document sources

Federal Battery on Morris Island, February 12, 1864 by Conrad Wise Chapman

Painting by Conrad Wise Chapman.

“This scene was sketched by the artist from the top of St. Michaels Church in Charleston, by means of a telescope. There is a gunboat out in the harbor; every time there was a flash, the artist states that the yankee soldiers in the batteries would disappear as if by magic.” – Conrad Wise Chapman, 1898

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