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Fort Sumter: Anvil of War

Name: Fort Sumter: Anvil of War
ISBN: 0-912627-24-7

By National Park Service

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Table of Contents

Fort Sumter Anvil of War
About This book
Part 1 The Fort on the Shoal
- The Fort on the Shoal
  - Fort Sumter on the Eve of War
Part 2 The Civil War Years
- Fort Sumter and the Coming of War, 1861
  - The Fort Sumter Flags
- The Struggle for Charleston, 1863-65
  - The Fight for Battery Wagner
  - Sumter Under Fire
  - The 1865 Flag Raising
Part 3 The Fort Today
- From Wartime Ruin to National Monument
- What to See at Fort Sumter
  - Sally Port
  - Left-Flank Casemates
  - Fort Sumter Today
  - Left Face
  - Right Face
  - Right Gorge Angle
  - Officers’ Quarters
  - Enlisted Men’s Barracks
  - Garrison Monument
  - Mountain Howitzer
- Other Points of Interest
  - Fort Moultrie
  - James Island
  - Castle Pinckney
  - The Battery
- For Further Reading
Handbook 127
- Illustration Credits
National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior
Transcriber’s Notes