Keywords: Fort sumter 1861.jpg confederate flag flying over fort sumter -- photo from 1861 Image is a detail from a stereoscopic photograph taken by Alma A Pelot on the morning of April 15 1861 <ref>Bob Zeller The Blue and Gray in Black and White A History of Civil War Photography Westport Conn Praeger 2005 42; http //www pddoc com/cw-chronicles/ p 1319 Interior of Fort Sumter ”Stereoscopic Views of the Ruins Inside Chronicles of the American Civil War April 16 2005 retrieved May 11 2008 </ref> 1861-04-15 PD-old original upload log page en wikipedia Fort_sumter_1861 JPG 2003-11-23 22 57 AlexPlank 184×255×8 17810 bytes <nowiki></nowiki> 2002-09-06 18 51 Isis 184×255×8 18798 bytes <nowiki>confederate flag flying over fort sumter -- photo from 1861</nowiki> References reflist Fort Sumter Charleston South Carolina in the American Civil War |