Showing posts with label Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Show all posts
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Just in Time for Fort Fisher's 155th Anniversary: Lots of Pictures and Photos of Fort Fisher
From the January 15, 2020, Wilmington (NC) Star-News online.
A collection of 25 paintings, illustrations and photographs of Fort Fisher, including the famous photos taken by Timothy O'Sullivan shortly after the fort's capture.
Of particular interest is one of a Fort Fisher survivors meeting and what the fort and area looked like in the early 20th century.
#15 is incorrectly identified as the bombardment of Fort Fisher. It is actually the explosion of the powder magazine after the fort's capture.
It is amazing how inaccurate the illustrations were, though.
--Old B-RunnerFisher
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Fort Williams, Florida-- Part 1: Determined To Be Too Isolated
From the Civil War Florida site by Dale Cox.
A wartime sketch of the St, Marks lighthouse and Fort Williams appeared in the Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on February 11, 1862. It showed the USS Mohawk and the CSS gunboat Spray behind the fort.
The fort was named for Colonel J.J. Williams, a well-known planter from Leon County and was built to protect the mouth of the St. Marks River. It was an earthen fortification backed by timber and several pieces of heavy artillery were placed in it. It was sited on Lighthouse Point, just west of the lighthouse.
It was determined that the fort was isolated and could not easily be supported in an attack and the Confederates evacuated it in 1862. The defense of the St, Marks River was moved to the Spanish Fort San Marcos de Apalache which was in ruins, but a Marine Hospital was already on the site and could be used as barracks.
--Old B-Runner
A wartime sketch of the St, Marks lighthouse and Fort Williams appeared in the Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on February 11, 1862. It showed the USS Mohawk and the CSS gunboat Spray behind the fort.
The fort was named for Colonel J.J. Williams, a well-known planter from Leon County and was built to protect the mouth of the St. Marks River. It was an earthen fortification backed by timber and several pieces of heavy artillery were placed in it. It was sited on Lighthouse Point, just west of the lighthouse.
It was determined that the fort was isolated and could not easily be supported in an attack and the Confederates evacuated it in 1862. The defense of the St, Marks River was moved to the Spanish Fort San Marcos de Apalache which was in ruins, but a Marine Hospital was already on the site and could be used as barracks.
--Old B-Runner
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