Edmondston-Alston House Print rice plantation fortifications

fortifications

Fort Sumter (the fort occupied by Union troops under command of Union Major Robert Anderson at time of the first shot)

Scots Presbyterians

the 54th Massachusetts out of Boston

Edmondston-Alston House Print rice plantation fortificationsThe Edmondston Alston House, built in 1825, is located along the Cooper River in Charleston and has an expansive view of Charleston Harbor. It was from its piazza that Gen. PGT Beauregard watched the bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861, signaling the start of the Civil War. This sketch, printed on archival paper, is double matted, and can be purchased as either an 8x10 or 11x14 print, framed or unframed.