Don's Fort Sumter Photos

Taken 10/18/99

 

The Battery, Charleston

 

Looking toward the Atlantic - South shore islands on right

 

Fort Sumter

 

Note the various flags which have flown over the fort

 

 

 

Guess who?

 

Inside the "Left Face" - lower gun ports - one of the few remaining original walls

 

An original 8" Columbiad which was one of the guns during the original bombardment

 

Facing Charleston in the Left Flank wall

 

The Left Flank Wall's lower gun ports

 

The remains of the powder magazine which exploded while in Confederate hands - note the blast caused the arch in back to lean in

 

Remains of the pavement leading to the original sally port on the Gorge Wall (destroyed by Union bombardments)

 

Left Flank wall (inside)

 

Left face wall (inside)

 

Columbiad elevated for distance

 

Left face wall (inside)