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    South Carolina's Lowcountry
    South Carolina's Lowcountry
    South Carolina's Lowcountry
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    South Carolina's Lowcountry

    By Anthony Chibbaro

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    Known for its unique beauty and complex history, South Carolina's Lowcountry is one of the South's, and the country's, most fascinating regions. A wonderful blend of picturesque coastlines, expansive marshes, mysterious swamps, and verdant landscapes, the Lowcountry has played a vital role in our nation's history, from its importance as a port in colonial times, to its strategic location during the American Revolution, to its most famous landmark, Fort Sumter--the incendiary starting point of the Confederacy's struggle for secession. In this volume, you will explore this region as never before, through a rare collection of stereoscopic images. Also called stereoviews, these twin images were made by an early photographic technique which allowed the viewer to experience a vibrant and intriguing three-dimensional effect. South Carolina's Lowcountry has reproduced one side of each stereoscopic pair in order to facilitate an easier reading and viewing experience, which will allow you to take a visual journey through the defenses of Forts Sumter and Moultrie; to see both Confederate and Union soldiers posing in their camps, by cannon, and upon ironclads; to walk through the rubble of a war-torn Charleston and then observe the dramatic changes of the cityscapes in both the Holy City and Beaufort by the turn of the century; to stroll down a plantation's traditional avenue of live oaks under the peaceful sway of Spanish moss; and to meet a variety of Lowcountry inhabitants at their homes and at work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439627068
    South Carolina's Lowcountry
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    Anthony Chibbaro

    Author and amateur historian Anthony Chibbaro has collected a wide array of stereoviews for South Carolina’s Lowcountry, capturing the area’s natural beauty and extraordinary charm, in both its architecture and its people. These images, matched with the book’s informative captions, create an incredible reading experience, one which will surely be a treasure to those who have grown up in the Lowcountry and to its many visitors who come to experience this special Southern place.

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      WAR COMES TO THE LOWCOUNTRY

      SECESSION HALL AND THE CIRCULAR CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MEETING STREET, C. 1861. The building in the center of the view above was the home of the South Carolina Institute, an early mechanical and agricultural society headquartered in downtown Charleston. In December of 1860 and partly in response to Abraham Lincoln being elected president, the State of South Carolina voted to secede from the Union. The Ordinance of Secession, the document which put the Palmetto State on a collision course with the North and paved the way for the onset of the Civil War, was signed in the Institute’s hall. The building then became popularly known as Secession Hall. This photo was probably taken in late 1860, just after the signing of the Ordinance, or in 1861, as all the buildings pictured were virtually destroyed in the Great Fire of the latter year. The Circular Church appears on the left. (Fred VonSanten.)

      GORGE WALL AND SALLY PORT, FORT SUMTER, CHARLESTON HARBOR, APRIL 1861. Taken in the first few days after the opening battle of the Civil War, this panoramic photograph is a composite of four separate photos which have been pieced together. It is thought to be the work of George S. Cook or Osborn & Durbec. A close look at the right side of the photo will reveal pockmarks on the facade, where Confederate shells peppered the Union-held fort.

      RIGHT QUARTER OF GORGE WALL AND RIGHT GORGE ANGLE, FORT SUMTER, APRIL 1861. This photo presents a better view of the effect of the Confederate cannon on Sumter’s walls. The shells that did this damage originated from gunners located at Cummings Point on Morris Island. One of these shell marks is from the famous shot fired by radical secessionist Edmund Ruffin of Virginia, which awoke Union Captain Abner Doubleday, asleep in Sumter’s officers’ quarters at the time.

      PARADE GROUNDS, FORT SUMTER, APRIL 1861. This widely reproduced view shows Confederate dignitaries inspecting a Columbiad cannon that was poised to fire on downtown Charleston. Major Robert Anderson, commander of the beleaguered Union forces inside Sumter, had ordered that this cannon, along with several others, be positioned like a mortar and be made ready to fire on the city itself. Fortunately, he never gave the final order to fire. The tall gentleman in the top hat, standing closest to the cannon, has long been thought to be Wade Hampton, a man who was to become a successful Confederate general and, later, a popular governor of South Carolina. However, he is not mentioned as having visited the fort in any of the many newspaper reports of the day. Contemporary media accounts do place then-governor Francis Pickens at the fort on April 14, along with Colonel F.J. Moses Jr., J.L. Dearing, Chancellor Carroll, and Judges Glover and Wardlaw. Note the hot shot furnace standing immediately behind the group.

      PARAPET, LEFT FLANK, FORT SUMTER, APRIL 1861. Shown here are Confederate ordnance officers in the process of inspecting the damage done to Fort Sumter by the Floating Battery, a floating gun platform placed in Charleston Harbor by Confederate forces. Officials of the young Confederacy were quick to survey their newly occupied position in order to make it defensible. The Union forces inside Sumter had been exposed to a bombardment that lasted 34 hours and consisted of over 3,000 rounds. Amazingly, there were no Union fatalities. However, two Yankee soldiers were killed during the flag-lowering ceremonies after the surrender. A 100-gun salute had been negotiated by Union commander Anderson, during which there was a mishap that caused a pile of powder cartridges to explode. The explosion killed one gunner on the spot and wounded a second, who died the following day. The dismounted gun in the foreground may have been caused by excessive recoil upon firing or by damage from incoming shells.

      FORT SUMTER, PARADE GROUNDS, APRIL 1861. This photo presents another view of the damage done by the secessionist cannonade to the interior of Fort Sumter. In the foreground appears the fort’s main flagpole, which was hit several times by incoming shells and was finally broken in half.

      RAMPART OF FORT MOULTRIE, SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, APRIL 1861. There was much activity in Fort Moultrie also in the days after the Union surrender of Fort Sumter. The Confederate forces concentrated on shoring up their defenses. Sandbags are evident in the foreground and in the distance. They were utilized in conjunction with palmetto logs to create traverses for added protection against enemy fire.

      PARAPET OF FORT MOULTRIE, APRIL 1861. Shown here is the channel face of Moultrie, with guns at the ready. Now silent, they had only recently been active in the bombardment of Union-held Fort Sumter. The Confederate soldiers in the background seem to be relaxing in the spring sunshine. This was not the first time that Moultrie had seen men and guns come together in time of war. The proud fort had played a large part in defending Charleston against British warships during the Revolutionary War, when it was called Fort Sullivan, and during the War of 1812. In peacetime, the fort had also hosted such notables as Edgar Allan Poe, William Tecumseh Sherman, Braxton Bragg, and Abner Doubleday, all of whom were stationed there at one time or another prior to the Civil War. Seminole Indian leader Osceola was a reluctant resident of the fort, being imprisoned there in the 1830s. He died during his confinement and was buried right

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