{"id":99462,"date":"2020-12-28T02:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=99462"},"modified":"2020-12-28T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T03:49:46","slug":"dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/dismantled\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/50725493357\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Group of Guns and Gun Carriages Dismantled by Major Anderson at Fort Moultrie\u2014Drawn by an Officer of His Command\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Group-of-Guns-and-Gun-Carriages-Dismantled-by-Major-Anderson-at-Fort-Moultrie%E2%80%94Drawn-by-an-Officer-of-His-Command_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Group of Guns and Gun Carriages Dismantled by Major Anderson at Fort Moultrie\u2014Drawn by an Officer of His Command\" width=\"639\" height=\"274\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Californian FB; font-size: small;\">Group of Guns and Gun Carriages Dismantled by Major Anderson at Fort Moultrie\u2014<br \/>\nDrawn by an Officer of His Command<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Image published in Harper&#8217;s Weekly, January 26, 1861<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description from <a href=\"http:\/\/moultrie.battlefieldsinmotion.com\/Old-Photos-and-Maps.html\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">Fort Moultrie 1809-1930\u2014A Chronological List of Maps &amp; Photos<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crude woodcut depicting the guns lining Moultrie\u2019s Southwest Angle \u2014 those which could most easily be fired at Fort Sumter \u2014 lying dismounted amid the charred remnants of their burnt barbette-carriages, after these had been torched by a detachment of the departing Federal garrison under Capt. John G. Foster. This particular engraving was based upon an eyewitness sketch \u201cdrawn by an officer\u201d of Major Anderson\u2019s command \u2014 possibly the surgeon Capt. Samuel Wylie Crawford, who himself participated in this act of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>Note: the few loose cannonballs strewn about on Moultrie\u2019s overgrown terreplein, as well as the antebellum sentry-box standing at right, with a shovel propped up against it.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Original woodcut engraving printed atop page 53 of the January 26, 1861 edition of \u201cHarper\u2019s Weekly\u201d (Volume V, Number 213), available in many university and public libraries, as well as in private collections.<\/p>\n<p>______________________<br \/>\nMike&#8217;s notes:<\/p>\n<p>Note \u2013 This image has been digitally adjusted for one or more of the following:<br \/>\n\u2013 fade correction,<br \/>\n\u2013 color, contrast, and\/or saturation enhancement<br \/>\n\u2013 selected spot and\/or scratch removal<br \/>\n\u2013 cropped for composition and\/or to accentuate subject<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group of Guns and Gun Carriages Dismantled by Major Anderson at Fort Moultrie\u2014 Drawn by an Officer of His Command Image published in Harper&#8217;s Weekly, January 26, 1861 Description from Fort Moultrie 1809-1930\u2014A Chronological List of Maps &amp; Photos: Crude woodcut depicting the guns lining Moultrie\u2019s Southwest Angle \u2014 those which could most easily be [&hellip;]<\/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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-harpers-weekly"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99462","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=99462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}