Bird's Eye View of Charleston, South Carolina, Looking South

Bird's Eye View of Charleston, South Carolina, Looking South

Detailed panorama with troops; in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper 4/1/1865.

March 7, 1865

Recto: "Charleston Bank // Old Custom House and Post Office // Cooper River // Castle Pinckney // Battery Bee // Sullivans Island // Ft. Moultrie // Union Fleet // Cope's Cotton Press // Ft. Sumter // Ft Ripley or Middle Ground Batt'y // Ft. Strong - formerly Ft. Wagner // Morris Island // Battery's Gregg chatfied + the Naval Battery // Ft. Johnson // Fire Proof Building or Hall of Records &c, // James Island // Battery Simpkins // White Pt Garden or Battery // City Hall // St. Michaels Church // So-Ca-Hall // 1st Presbyterian Church // Court House // Guard House // Ashley River // Secessionville // James Island // Meeting St. // 21st U.S.C.T. Col A. G. Bennett // Hibernian Hall // Birds Eye View of Charleston S.C. and Charleston Harbor (Looking South) // Sketched from Mills House March 7th 1865 // For descriptions see my letter of same date."

Verso: no text.

Vertical and horizontal folds; rips and stain along upper margin; stain at lower left corner, large loss of paper; loss of paper on lower margin .

graphite on wove paper

9.75 x 13.25 in.

Graphite drawings--American--1860-1870

Bird's-eye views--American--1860-1870

32.7764749, -79.9310512

Original drawing location: CW-WC-SC-3/7/65 (Box 6.)

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4739

(Becker)CW-WC-SC-3/7/65