Appeared in Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War Hand-tinted off-print Special handed-tinted off-prints were often sold separately from newspapers and other documents. Numerous originals held today by public institutions and in private collections.

Perine, George Edward (1837-1885) Bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861, Engraved in 1863 expressly for Abbotts Civil War Medium: illustrations (layout features) Item Location: Fort Sumter NM/Charles Pinckney NHS Curatorial Storage Facility, located at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Box: Box 3 of 3 FOSU 19th c Illustrations Frank Leslie Harper’s Weekly London Times etc [...]

Frank Leslie’s The Soldier in Our Civil War, Vol. I.; The Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, Incorporated.

Gazaway B. Lamar to Howell Cobb. Bank of the Republic, New York, Apl. 13, 1861. Dr. Sir: We have just learned by telegram of the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. Strange as it may seem to you, it is true that the people of this city who have professed to sympathise with the South [...]

HONORING THE LIFE OF SERGEANT PETER HART ______ HON. STEVE ISRAEL of New York in the House of Representatives Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Mr. ISRAEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay special tribute to the life and legacy of Sergeant Peter Hart, a soldier and New York City Police Officer, who served in the [...]

probably from Moultrie Drawn by Frederic B. Schell; Engraved by Samuel Sartain from The history of the Civil War in the United States : its cause, origin, progress and conclusion by Smucker, Samuel M. (Samuel Mosheim), 1823-1863; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Publisher Philadelphia [etc.] Jones Brothers & Co.; Chicago [etc.] Zeigler, McCurdy & [...]

Title: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861 Creator(s): Currier & Ives.

Handed-tinted off-print of originally black and white engraving Title: Scene on the floating battery in Charleston Harbor during bombardment of Fort Sumter [verso] From the book: The Soldier In Our Civil War. Locations: Charleston Harbor, Charleston County, South Carolina, United Medium: illustrations (layout features) Item Location: Fort Sumter NM/Charles Pinckney NHS Curatorial Storage Facility, located [...]

Title: Interior of Fort Sumter: during the bombardment, April 12th, 1861 Creator(s): Currier & Ives.

Bombardment of Fort Sumter Vignette title page image from  J. T Headley’s 1898 The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States

(Private.) Rome, Ga., April 11, 1861. Dear Sir: You will have seen no doubt a few favourable notices of myself for next Governor. My inclination is to write a letter declining to have any such use made of my name. I have been restrained by the consideration, first, that it might possibly be of some [...]

New Orleans, 7 April, 1861. My Dear Wife, This is Sunday in New Orleans. I have just strolled “solitary and alone” through some of the streets and found here and there a French store open, but most generally the store doors were closed and things bore the appearance of Sunday in a well regulated Christian [...]

Montgomery [Ala.], April 6, 1861. Dear Stephens, . . . We have very urgent requests from our friends at Little Rock for you to come to Arkansas and make some speeches for them at such time as will suit you before their election in August. They would prefer it soon. Dr. Blackburn, a very intelligent [...]

Howell Cobb to His Wife. E. Mobile [Ala.], 31 March, 1861. My Dear Wife, We failed to make connection at this point, so I am detained here for a day. I shall leave this evening however for New Orleans and expect to be there early tomorrow morning. I have met many friends and acquaintances and [...]

Burlington, N. Jersey March 28, 1861           Sir, In despair of immediate action in Maryland, my native state, and in Virginia, the birthplace of my wife (she was Miss Custis) I am solicitous to enter the civil service of the Confederate States. And in this behalf I beg to enclose herewith a note from the Hon. [...]

Bank of the Republic, New York, March 28th, 1861. Dr. Sir: If Cotton is King, the King must command peace; for peace is essential to your prosperity. And Cotton is King—he commands not only all, all the mills and manufactures of Old and New England, France and Europe, but the allegiance of your own citizens, [...]

Washington, March 26, 1861.           My Dear Sir: Yours of the 23rd did not reach me until last night. More than ever I cherish old friends, those whom I knew and esteemed in my early years. Of that number, now unhappily rapidly diminishing, I include yourself. I wish I could see you before I cross the [...]

Macon, Ga., 26 March, 1861. My Dear Mr. Buchanan, I intended to address you this letter on the 5th of March, but at that time I was so much engaged at Montgomery that I could not carry out my purpose. In fact I have been constantly employed since my return to Georgia and have not [...]

New York, March 25th, 1861. My Dear Sir: The differences between the rates of the tariffs North and South are creating great discontent already at the North, and they will in the North have to call an extra Congress to repeal their Morrill tariff. This will be the consequence; and if not, a considerable part [...]

A. M. Evans to Howell Cobb. [Gillsville] , Hall Co[unty], Ga., March 20, 1861. Dear Sir: Nothing ever has bin more gratifying to me than the movement of the Southern Confederacy so fare as it has Went, thare seems to be still some among us disposed to act with The Black Republican party. It is [...]

Thomas R. R. Cobb to Howell. Cobb. Savannah [Ga.], Tuesday Mar. 19, 1861. Dear Brother, Your letter together with three from my wife and some forty others have been lying in the P. O. here for several days while I was in blissful ignorance. I am perfectly willing to labor for the Confederate States. I [...]

From Edward Bates to Abraham Lincoln, March 15, 1861 The President of the United States has required my opinion in writing, upon the following question: “Assuming it to be possible to now provision Fort Sumter, under all the circumstances, is it wise to attempt it?” This is not a question of lawful right nor physical [...]

From Intelligence in the Civil War, A publication of the Central Intelligence Agency On February 11, 1861, Abraham Lincoln said his farewell to the people of his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, and boarded a train that would take him to Washington for his inauguration on March 4. As he started out, rumors of assassination plots [...]

Bank of the Republic, New York, March 9, 1861. My Dear Sir: I have yours 5th inst. I had a letter from Mr. Memminger on the subject of the Loan[i] but I could give him no encouragement here at present. You know that all loans are founded on or have reference to London. At this [...]