One of the first known images of combat. Taken in September 8, 1863. It depicts US ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie, SC.
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One of the first known images of combat. Taken in September 8, 1863. It depicts US ironclads firing on Fort Moultrie, SC.
by Savgeriiii
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In this stereograph by George S. Cook, Union ironclads fire at Fort Moultrie on Sept. 8, 1863.
Charleston photographer George S. Cook became history’s first combat photographer – the first photographer to capture the enemy in action while under fire – when he captured a stereo photograph of the Union Navy’s USS Ironsides and two Monitor warships firing at Fort Moultrie during a battle in Charleston Harbor on Sept. 8, 1863. (Image scanned from Miller’s Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume One, page 24; original negative at The Valentine, Richmond, Va.)
This is rare, thanks
I guess we’ll have to take your word for it. 🤷🏽♂️
What are we looking at though. Are those tanks in the back?
Remember everyone, the south started the war. They fired first on Fort Sumter. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union. The states that followed were traitor states.
Revisionist history, and sympathizers today, like to frame it as a “state’s rights” issues, but remember what those rights were – *to keep human beings as slaves and to preserve the institution of slavery*.
Fuck the southern states and fuck anyone who glorifies or romanticizes what they were fighting for. They were traitors to the United States.
Hope the others were better