Interior of Fort Moultrie, looking towards Fort Sumter. (Or something in the water.)

Mike Serpa

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Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Interior of Fort Moultrie, looking towards Fort Sumter. (Morris Island) 1865 . LOC #03103
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What's in the water on the right of Fort Sumter? Thanks.

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Thanks for the replies!

William, what direction were you facing when you took the first photo? Thanks.
 
The reason for Fort Sumter was that anything entering the harbor would have to go between Moultrie and Sumter. And, because Moultrie was vulnerable by land.
 
What makes Sumter hard to recognize is that by 1865 only one wall resembled the original fort, the others had been blasted into piles of rubble.
 
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