{"id":99412,"date":"2020-12-25T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=99412"},"modified":"2020-12-25T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T03:51:07","slug":"evacuation-of-fort-moultrie-as-envisioned-by-will-waud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/evacuation-of-fort-moultrie-as-envisioned-by-will-waud\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation of Fort Moultrie, As Envisioned by Will Waud"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Evacuation<\/a>
\n\u201cEvacuation of Fort Moultrie by Major Anderson and the United States Troops on Christmas Night, 1860 \u2014The Troops Conveying Powder and other Stores in Sloops to Fort Sumpter\u201d1,2,3<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n

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

William Waud\u2019s imagined scene of the evacuation4<\/sup><\/h3>\n

Imagined scene of the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by Anderson\u2019s two U.S. Artillery companies on the evening of December 26, 1860, as depicted more than three weeks later in Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper \u2014 from a sketch forwarded by the \u201cspecial artist\u201d which its publisher had subsequently dispatched to report from Charleston, William Waud.<\/p>\n

However, Waud\u2019s English colleague Thomas Butler Gunn would note on Page 28 of Volume 14 of his personal Diaries, how Waud did not actually reach Charleston until ten days after this particular event, so of course did not personally witness the evacuation. And in fact, all historical accounts coincide on that Moultrie\u2019s Federal garrison had not exited their fort by descending the peacetime staircase on its western rampart \u2014 as illustrated here by Waud \u2014 but rather had simply marched out of its main Guardhouse gates on the north side, which were then shut behind them by the small sapper-party which was to remain inside overnight to complete various acts of sabotage. Capt. Abner Doubleday, for example, would record fifteen years later on Pages 64-65 of his 1876 Reminiscences how:<\/p>\n

Everything being in readiness, we passed out of the main gates, and silently made our way for about a quarter of a mile to a spot where the boats were hidden behind an irregular pile of rocks, which originally formed part of the sea-wall. There was not a single human being in sight as we marched to the rendezvous, and we had the extraordinary good luck to be wholly unobserved.<\/p>\n

Note: that the peacetime staircase pictured by Waud had in all likelihood been removed during the outnumbered Federal garrison\u2019s efforts to strengthen their defenses, and only restored to the fort\u2019s western rampart once South Carolinian forces had occupied Moultrie \u2014 which is how Waud saw and recorded its appearance in January 1861.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cEvacuation of Fort Moultrie.\u201d Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper<\/i>. January 19, 1891.<\/li>\n
  2. Special handed-tinted off-prints were also sold separately from the weekly newspapers. Numerous originals are 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":"

    \u201cEvacuation of Fort Moultrie by Major Anderson and the United States Troops on Christmas Night, 1860 \u2014The Troops Conveying Powder and other Stores in Sloops to Fort Sumpter\u201d1,2,3 This is an artist\u2019s imagined rendering of an actual event. William Waud\u2019s imagined scene of the evacuation4 Imagined scene of the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by Anderson\u2019s […]<\/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-99412","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\/99412","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=99412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}