Photograph shows the Confederate flag flying at Fort Sumter, on April 15, 1861, following the surrender of Major Anderson and his Union troops, documenting the beginning of the Civil War; troops prepare to load cannon. Image is a detail from a stereoscopic photograph taken by Alma A. Pelot on the morning of April 15, 1861.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43665256" class="extiw" title="d:Q43665256"><span title="19th-century photographer, active in the American Civil War">Alma A. Pelot</span></a>
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