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Located in Bushnell, some 50 miles north of Tampa, it was built between 1912-14. The architect was William Augustus Edwards.
This long abandoned house is near Plains,Georgia. Thousands of daffodils are covering the yard, spreading over the years from what were once well kept paths and beds. It was the worst time of day to shoot this, straight into the afternoon sun, but I was afraid I wouldn't be back again while they were still in bloom.
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union while James Buchanan was president.
Jefferson Davis would be inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, and later elected President of the CSA.
President Abraham Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861.
The American Civil War started on April 12, 1861, the Confederate States of America attacked the union post, and the war began.
Without proper care, English Ivy is known to be invasive. Ya think?
This is the front of the house that was in my last post.
The fort guards the Charleston, SC harbor and it remained in U.S. hands after South Carolina seceded to form the Confederate States of America. On 12 April, 1861, Confederate forces began shelling the fort, initiating the Civil War. The fort surrendered 34 hours later. A confederate mule was the only casualty. On 14 April, 1865 the fort returned to U.S. control and the Stars and Stripes again flew there. Later that night, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
To defend Tidewater’s coastlines from potential invaders, from around 1848 to 1859, many forts were built along the coast and in Tidewater’s biggest harbors. Fort Sumder, named for General William Sumder, a hero of the Tidewater War for Independence, began its construction in July 1851 and finished in September 1855, Fort Sumder is one of the most powerful fortresses ever built. Located in the middle of Charleston Harbor in the state of New Carolina, she was and still is the keystone to the city’s defense and the military headquarters in the city. Originally boasting an armament of over 190 powerful, yet outdated, Dalgren smoothbores and Parrot Rifles and garrisoned by almost 1000 troops, she is a magnificent sight to behold. Her original masonry was strengthened in 1863, and dozens breech-loading rifles installed in 1869. Since her completion she has maintained a reputation as a powerful and almost impregnable fortress over the years. Sumder upheld that reputation during the Eight Years War when during a Perceptan attack on Charleston, she, several shore batteries, and two Tidewater Navy protected cruisers, the Argus and the Hornet, bravely held off a massive Perceptan bombardment that 72 hours. Sumder, with her reinforced masonry taking hit after hit and her rifled guns keeping up a rapid rate of fire at 80 shells per minute. Sumder, though strong, did take several bad hits. A shell from a Perceptan cruiser hit the enlisted barracks, killing a dozen soldiers and wounding many others. Another smashed the commissary and mess hall. Others hit places such as the jetty and the sally port, however, that fortunately caused only minor damage. After the bombardment failed to suppress Fort Sumder, the Perceptans withdrew, their hopes to capture Charleston dashed. The commandant of Fort Sumder, Colonel Walter Lewis, received a promotion to Brigadier General, and a medal for his heroic actions in defense of Charleston. The fort became famous throughout Tidewater for the glorious victory at Charleston and became the subject of many pieces of artwork, songs, and poems. The fort still stands in Charleston harbor as a reminder of Tidewater’s endurance and strength.
Thanks to Backward Matt, without whom, I'd probably just have given up on this.
These four photos depict Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
Built on a man-made island after the War of 1812 to better defend the harbor, Fort Sumter was the site of the beginning of the American Civil War. Less than a week after South Carolina seceded from the Union, Major Robert Anderson left Fort Moultrie on the shore of the harbor to take refuge in and protect Fort Sumter, a pentagon-shaped three level fort. Challenged by his friend and former student at West Point Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard, to abandon the fort, Anderson stayed in position.
At 4:30 A.M. on April 12, cannons from several shoreline batteries began to fire, and the Civil War was underway.
Forced to surrender the fort two days later when Confederate fireshot ignited the barracks and fire moved toward the magazine where ammunition was stored, Major Anderson asked for safe haven back to New York and that he be allowed to take the flag that had flown over the fort, and both conditions were granted.
Fort Sumter remained in Confederate hands throughout the rest of the war, but a two year siege (still the longest siege in history) began in 1863 when the Federal forces began moving up the South Carolina coast. Incessant fire from Union artillery brought the three story fort down to one level.
In February of 1865, Fort Sumter returned to Union control.
When the war ended, Major Anderson returned with the original flag to raise over the devastated fort once again. That event occurred on April 14, 1865, four years to the day that the fort had been surrendered. President Abraham Lincoln was advised not to come to the flag-raising where the war had begun, due to fears for his safety in Charleston, the birthplace of secession. Instead, Lincoln attended the theater in Washington, D.C. that evening...and was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
The Battle of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, marked the beginning of the long-fought war between the North and the South, as the South Carolina militia attacked the Union fort. It ended with the surrender of the fort by the United States Army, marking the beginning of the American Civil War.