File:Attack of the Federal Iron-Clads on Fort Sumter and the Rebel Batteries commanding the entrance to Charleston Harbor, on the 7th of April, 1863 - NYIN 1863.jpg
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| Attack of the Federal Iron-Clads on Fort Sumter and the Rebel Batteries commanding the entrance to Charleston Harbor, on the 7th of April, 1863 | |
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New York Illustrated News staff |
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New York Illustrated News |
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Attack of the Federal Iron-Clads on Fort Sumter and the Rebel Batteries commanding the entrance to Charleston Harbor, on the 7th of April, 1863 |
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English: The Attack of the Federal Iron-Clads on Fort Sumter and the Rebel Batteries Commanding the Entrance to Charleston Harbor, on the 7th of April, 1863. Union efforts to retake Charleston Harbor began on April 7, 1863, when Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, led the ironclad frigate New Ironsides, the tower ironclad Keokuk, and the monitors Weehawken, Passaic, Montauk, Patapsco, Nantucket, Catskill, and Nahant in an attack on the harbor's defenses. (The 1863 Battle of Fort Sumter was the largest deployment of monitors in action up to that time.) The attack was unsuccessful: the Union's best ship, USS New Ironsides never effectively engaged, and the ironclads fired only 154 rounds, while receiving 2,209 from the Confederate defenders (Wise 1994, p. 30).
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| Depicted place | Fort Sumter |
| Date | 7 June 1863 |
| Medium | Wood engraving |
| Credit line | New York Illustrated News |
| Source/Photographer | New York Illustrated News |
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