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Officers Coming Ashore on the Backs of Sailors, Fort Beauregard, St. Phillips Island, South Carolina Item Info

Vertical folds; pin marks on left and right margins; large splatter of ink in foreground.
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Abstract:
Unusual for WC for showing figures so close.
Title:
Officers Coming Ashore on the Backs of Sailors, Fort Beauregard, St. Phillips Island, South Carolina
Artist:
Crane, W. T.
Date:
no date
Transcription:
Recto: "woods // sand heap // thick woods here // Fort Beauregard St Phillips Island S.C..";Verso: Fort (or Battery[)] Beauregard St. Phillips Island S.C. // The boats in the foreground (especially at low water) find it impossible to get very near the beach consequently Officers and Gentlemen make it customary to get a sailor to carry them on their backs from the boat of return- I have represented a large boat from a man of war landing provision for the Marine Corp. (who were in the Govenor [sic]) which fell under my notice - the figures on the beach at the right are soldiers- picking up empty shell boxes which completely line the beach they are made thus [drawing of box] - said boxes were thrown from the vessells [sic] after the shell were removed during the bombardment - and they end being used by the soldiers & marines to build fires with - I think I have placed the three gun battery at the left - a little too low down - it should be more on a line with the main fortification -."
Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Landing operations
Condition:
Vertical folds; pin marks on left and right margins; large splatter of ink in foreground.
Place:
South Carolina--Beaufort--Saint Phillips Island
Medium:
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:
9.75 x 13.75 in.
Genre:
Image;StillImage
Coordinates:
32.2843663, -80.6131635
Source:
Original drawing location: CW-WC-SC-NDf (Box 6.)
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4759
Ref. Number:
(Becker)CW-WC-SC-NDf
Collection:
Ships
Tags:
Boats Flag Fortifications
Format:
image/jpeg
Attribution
Citation:
"Officers Coming Ashore on the Backs of Sailors, Fort Beauregard, St. Phillips Island, South Carolina", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2756.html
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