{"id":105879,"date":"2021-05-05T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=105879"},"modified":"2021-05-04T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T01:28:44","slug":"floating-battery-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/floating-battery-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Battery Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/51159267159\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105880 size-full\" title=\"Construction of the Floating Battery at Charleston\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Construction-of-the-Floating-Battery-at-Charleston.jpg\" alt=\"Construction of the Floating Battery at Charleston\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Construction-of-the-Floating-Battery-at-Charleston.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Construction-of-the-Floating-Battery-at-Charleston-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Construction-of-the-Floating-Battery-at-Charleston-1024x655.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Construction-of-the-Floating-Battery-at-Charleston-768x491.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Construction-of-the-Floating-Battery-at-Charleston-1536x983.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe substantial reliance on slave labor in the construction of the Floating Battery, commented on by Fort Sumter\u2019s Major Robert Anderson, is seen in this Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper drawing. The group effort at Marsh\u2019s Shipyard proved productive. Construction was completed in a few weeks. (Naval History and Heritage Command)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/floating-fire.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">HistoryNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The substantial reliance on slave labor in the construction of the Floating Battery, commented on by Fort Sumter\u2019s Major Robert Anderson, is seen in this Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper drawing. The group effort at Marsh\u2019s Shipyard proved productive. Construction was completed in a few weeks. (Naval History and Heritage Command) HistoryNet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-frank-leslies-illustrated-newspaper"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}