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Fort Sumter – Fort Sumter National Monument – South Carolina

Images of Fort Sumter in Fort Sumter National Monument – Eastern South Carolina, taken in August 2022.

Located at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, Fort Sumter National Monument protects Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired into the fort from Cummings Point on Morris Island by Confederate troops on April 12, 1861.

As you approach Fort Sumter by ferry from Patriot’s Point the fort looks very small; in fact, it looks even smaller from the inside. Today it is small but in its heyday the fort, instead of only one level as it is now, was three stories tall. At the start of the Civil War, it was designed to support 650 soldiers and 135 cannons.
Fort Sumter as seen from the ferry in Charleston Harbor in Fort Sumter National Monument
Fort Sumter as seen from the ferry in Charleston Harbor in Fort Sumter National Monument 		Closer look at Fort Sumter as seen from the ferry in Charleston Harbor in Fort Sumter National Monument
Closer look at Fort Sumter as seen from the ferry in Charleston Harbor in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Fort Sumter as seen from the dock in Fort Sumter National Monument
Fort Sumter as seen from the dock in Fort Sumter National Monument		 The Sally Port of Fort Sumter in Fort Sumter National Monument
The Sally Port of Fort Sumter in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Fort Moultrie on Sullivan Island as seen from Fort Sumter in Fort Sumter National Monument
Fort Moultrie on Sullivan Island as seen from Fort Sumter in Fort Sumter National Monument
Left flank casement ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
Left flank casement ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Casement ruins on the left flank of the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument
Casement ruins on the left flank of the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Display of cannons and the left casement ruins at Fort Sumter in Fort Sumter National Monument
Display of cannons and the left casement ruins at Fort Sumter in Fort Sumter National Monument		 The left casement ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
The left casement ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Left face casement ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
Left face casement ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
42-pounder, banded and rifled cast iron cannon in Fort Sumter National Monument
42-pounder, banded and rifled cast iron cannon in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Fingerprints of a slave who worked creating bricks used to build the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument
Fingerprints of a slave who worked creating bricks used to build the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Original 8-inch Columbaid cannon excavated from the ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
Original 8-inch Columbaid cannon excavated from the ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Fingerprints of a slave who worked creating bricks used to build the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument
Fingerprints of a slave who worked creating bricks used to build the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Original 42-pounder smoothbore cannon in the first-tier casement in Fort Sumter National Monument
Original 42-pounder smoothbore cannon in the first-tier casement in Fort Sumter National Monument
Left casement ruins and part of Battery Huger in Fort Sumter National Monument
Left casement ruins and part of Battery Huger in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Casement and Sally Port from inside the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument
Casement and Sally Port from inside the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument		 33-star US Flag flying above the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument
33-star US Flag flying above the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Left face casement ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
Left face casement ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Cannon display and left face casement in Fort Sumter National Monument
Cannon display and left face casement in Fort Sumter National Monument
8-inch (200 Pounder) Parrott cannon in Fort Sumter National Monument
8-inch (200 Pounder) Parrott cannon in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Battery Huger, added in 1898 during the Spanish-American War, in Fort Sumter National Monument
Battery Huger, added in 1898 during the Spanish-American War, in Fort Sumter National Monument		 10-inch Mortar, Model 1819 in Fort Sumter National Monument
10-inch Mortar, Model 1819 in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Bricked-up cannon port in Fort Sumter National Monument
Bricked-up cannon port in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Confederate Mountain Howitzer at the Right-Gorge Angle in Fort Sumter National Monument
Confederate Mountain Howitzer at the Right-Gorge Angle in Fort Sumter National Monument
View over the left flank looking towards Charleston in Fort Sumter National Monument
View over the left flank looking towards Charleston in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Officer’s Quarters ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
Officer’s Quarters ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Fireplace in the Officer’s Quarters ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
Fireplace in the Officer’s Quarters ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Overview of the Officer’s Quarters ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument
Overview of the Officer’s Quarters ruins in Fort Sumter National Monument		 Cannon displayed at the right face of the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument
Cannon displayed at the right face of the fort in Fort Sumter National Monument

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Thomas Walker 25-Aug-2022 15:39
Sweet memories Jerry. I am a 1977 grad from the College of Charleston.
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