Confederate Encampment

Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the companies who fought the Comings (i.e. Cummings) Point Batteries¹

Title: Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the companies who fought the Comings (i.e. Cummings) Point Batteries

Creator(s): Osborn & Durbec, photographer c. 1860-61

Summary: Photograph shows three Confederate soldiers amidst the fortifications at their camp at Cummings Point on Morris Island in preparation for the capture of Fort Sumter.

Title: from back of item Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

Permalink: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015645327/

1. Osborn & Durbec, photographer. Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the companies who fought the Comings i.e. Cummings Point Batteries. South Carolina Charleston United States Cummings Point Morris Island, None. [Charleston, S.C.: Osborn & Quebec’s Southern Stereoscopic & Photographic Depot. between 1860 and 1861] Photograph. Item retrieved from the Library of Congress 12-26-20

Note – This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:

• fade correction,
• color, contrast, and/or saturation enhancement
• selected spot and/or scratch removal
• cropped for composition and/or to accentuate subject