{"id":99445,"date":"2021-01-27T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=99445"},"modified":"2020-12-26T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T17:21:26","slug":"the-secession-flag-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-secession-flag-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secession Flag Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fort<\/a>
\nFort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina\u2014The Secession Flag Flying<\/span><\/p>\n

Description from Fort Moultrie 1809-1930<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The English-born correspondent Thomas Butler Gunn, representing himself as a reporter for the Illustrated London News<\/em> (although he was also secretly filing stories with the New York Tribune<\/em> and New York Evening Post<\/em>), gained admission into occupied Fort Moultrie on January 27, 1861 \u2014 unlike his friend and colleague William Waud, who was widely known throughout Charleston as being employed by the anti-secessionist Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Newspaper<\/em>. Gunn subsequently drew a crude, error-filled sketch of Moultrie\u2019s interior, which he dispatched to London to be featured in the March 2, 1861 edition of the Illustrated London News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Note: how Gunn\u2019s poor depiction includes a complete misidentification of the fort\u2019s hot-shot furnace in the foreground, as a small building \u2014 with soldiers even apparently about to enter into its \u201cdoor\u201d \u2014 while the ramp immediately behind this structure soars up impossibly beyond the level of Moultrie\u2019s Southwest Angle, rather than realistically leveling off at its terreplein.<\/p>\n

Source: Original woodcut published at the bottom of Page 194 of the March 2, 1861 issue of the Illustrated London News<\/em> (Volume 38, Number 1077); a sample is today preserved on Page 216 of Volume 17 of Gunn\u2019s personal diaries, and includes his handwritten annotation \u201cT. B. G. del.\u201d for \u201cThomas Butler Gunn delineavit<\/em>\u201d \u2014 the Latin expression meaning \u201cdrawn by\u201d. Other unannotated copies of this publication are held by libraries such as at Durham University, Emory University, etc., as well as in many private collections.<\/p>\n

Image retrieved from:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Secession Flag Flying in the Fort Moultrie, South Carolina.\u201d Open Parks Network. Accessed December 26, 2020. openparksnetwork.org\/single-item-view\/?oid=OPN_NS%3A933DC…<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Medium:<\/strong> illustrations (layout features)
\nItem Location:<\/strong> Fort Sumter NM\/Charles Pinckney NHS Curatorial Storage Facility, located at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
\nBox:<\/strong> Box 2 of 3 Fosu 19th-c Illustrations Frank Leslie Harpers Weekly London Times, Etc.<\/p>\n

Held By<\/strong> Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
\nIdentifiers<\/p>\n

Permanent Link:<\/strong> purl.clemson.edu\/A9154290D7A758A3E653AC8243163835<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMike’s notes:
\nSpecial handed-tinted off-prints were also sold separately from newspapers. Numerous originals held today by public institutions and in private collections.<\/p>\n

Note \u2013 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fort Moultrie, in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina\u2014The Secession Flag Flying Description from Fort Moultrie 1809-1930: The English-born correspondent Thomas Butler Gunn, representing himself as a reporter for the Illustrated London News (although he was also secretly filing stories with the New York Tribune and New York Evening Post), gained admission into occupied Fort Moultrie on […]<\/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":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99445","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=99445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}