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File Details: AOXUm, 800 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 42.9 Mb

Image ID: AOXU

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1861-1863

Equipment:

Barbette carriage (center pintle-wood); barrel

Locations & Lines:

Charleston Harbor; Charleston SC; Fort Sumter SC; South Carolina

Military Units:

CS Army; US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Interior view of Fort Sumter, S.C. showing effects of bombardment.

The large circular objects are the turntables upon which the center-pintle barbette carriages turned.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 3, p173.

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