{"id":99401,"date":"2020-12-25T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=99401"},"modified":"2020-12-25T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T16:25:20","slug":"exterior-view-of-fort-moultrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/exterior-view-of-fort-moultrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Exterior View of Fort Moultrie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Exterior<\/a>
\nExterior View of Fort Moultrie, On Sullivan’s Island, in the Harbor of Charleston, S.C. as it Appeared Previous to the Evacuation.\u2014from a Photograph by __Luce, Esq.1,2,3<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

This is an artist\u2019s imagined rendering of an actual event.<\/p>\n

Fort Moultrie 1809-19304<\/sup><\/h3>\n

Wood engraving of Moultrie\u2019s southern rampart, barracks, and inner parade-ground as seen from atop the nearby harbor-beacon, with the City of Charleston hazily visible in the far distance. Although originally published in the January 5, 1861 issue of Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper<\/em> in New York City \u2014 by which date Fort Moultrie had already undergone significant alterations, and been strengthened through erection of additional defenses by its beleaguered Federal garrison, before being abandoned to South Carolinian forces \u2014 this peaceful scene depicts the antebellum fort as it had appeared prior to the Secession Crisis and threat of war.<\/p>\n

Note: the civilian gentleman strolling Moultrie\u2019s rampart unconcernedly under a parasol, while two women gaze out to sea in the company of a waiting officer \u2014 one of these ladies seated comfortably atop the muzzle of a cannon-barrel. All the fort\u2019s artillery have their tompions inserted, and only a half-dozen or so of these pieces are not further encased in wooden gun-covers, as protection against the elements. The large sand-dune so prominently featured in Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em> contemporaneous engraving [see preceding entry], is not shown here at all. Instead, two fishermen can be discerned on the beach at left, returning from the Grillage \u2014 the rocky shore-side breakwater erected twenty years previously by the U.S. military engineer, Captain Alexander H. Bowman, a spot still well-known today as abounding in flounder, sheephead, and feeding porpoises.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cExterior View of Fort Moultrie.\u201d Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper<\/i>. January 5, 1891.<\/li>\n
  2. Special handed-tinted off-prints were also sold separately. Numerous originals held today by public institutions and in private collections.<\/li>\n
  3. This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:
    \n\u2013 fade correction,
    \n\u2013 color, contrast, and\/or saturation enhancement
    \n\u2013 selected spot and\/or scratch removal
    \n\u2013 cropped for composition and\/or to accentuate subject<\/li>\n
  4. Battlefields in Motion \u2013 Fort Moultrie 1809-1930 \u2013 A Chronological List of Maps & Photos. Accessed December 25, 2020. http:\/\/moultrie.battlefieldsinmotion.com\/Old-Photos-and-Maps.html<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Exterior View of Fort Moultrie, On Sullivan’s Island, in the Harbor of Charleston, S.C. as it Appeared Previous to the Evacuation.\u2014from a Photograph by __Luce, Esq.1,2,3 This is an artist\u2019s imagined rendering of an actual event. Fort Moultrie 1809-19304 Wood engraving of Moultrie\u2019s southern rampart, barracks, and inner parade-ground as seen from atop the nearby […]<\/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-99401","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\/99401","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=99401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}