13 x 17-3/4 in.
Emma Harter Sweetser Fund
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
The American Civil War was the first conflict to be thoroughly chronicled in photographs. The long exposure times required of photography in that era prevented photographers from documenting the chaos of battle, but the harsh realities of war were grimly evident in their photographs of the death and ruination of the still battlefields.
This massive sea gun at Fort Fisher, a Confederate stronghold on the North Carolina coast, was silenced during the three-day naval bombardment in January 1865. O’Sullivan arrived in the days after the fort’s capture to document the destruction visited upon the battlements of what had been "the Gibraltar of the South."
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