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Fort Sumpter national monument on Liberty Square in downtown Charleston. Fort Sumpter is where the Civil War stared, Union sold
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Fort Sumpter national monument on Liberty Square in downtown Charleston. Fort Sumpter is where the Civil War stared, Union sold

  • Fort Sumpter national monument on Liberty Square in downtown Charleston. Fort Sumpter is where the Civil War stared, Union sold
  • This nice little building has a very nice little museum inside and a boat dock out back to take you to the fort.
  • A repilca of the flag they flew at the fort.
  • This is the real flag, stored in this special case so keep it from falling apart even more. You only get to see a little bit of
  • This is what the real flag looks like unrolled. This is the big flag, when the war started they where flying the smaller storm
  • The Fort is out in the middle of the entrance of the bay, so of course you have to take a boat to get out there.
  • It was a pretty nice boat, little snack bar, nice bathrooms, and an air conditioned dining room.
  • One of the other old forts in the bay.
  • Cooper River bridge with one of the old forts in teh foreground.
  • A dredge keeping the channel open.
  • Fort sumpter, a tour boat is just leaving the docks.
  • The entrance to the fort.
  • Big gun, rifled, very cool. There where a lot of these here.
  • This area was bombarded very hard from begind. All the arches are gone, and there are spend shells stuck in the brick work ever
  • The whole fort was filled in with earth at one point. They've escavated most of it, but this area was left filled in.
  • These guns and carages had tanks built around them, filled with water and they used elctrolosis to remove the oxidation. Then t
  • They look pretty darn good when restored.
  • The flag was flying at half staff in honor of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and the victumes of hurricane Katrina.
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  • Notice the stuck stuck in the brick just below the bottom, left corner of the gun port.
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