Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Batteries of the Confederate States, April 13, 1861, woodcut by an unknown artist, 27 April 1861.
This woodcut shows the opening of the American Civil War, the attack on Fort Sumter by the Confederate States, which took place on 13 April 1861. It was originally published as a double-page spread in the American political magazine Harper's Weekly.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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