Guerre d'Amérique. Esclaves fugitifs se rendant aux travaux de fortifications exécutés à Port-Royal /

Bibliographic Details
Format:	Photo
Language:	French
Published:	[Paris] : [Imp. de la Librairie Nouvelle], [1862?]
Subjects:	Slave labor > South Carolina > Port Royal > Pictorial works. Fugitive slaves > South Carolina > Port Royal > Pictorial works. South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans > Pictorial works.

Description
Item Description:	Caption title. Detached from: Le monde illustré, number 248, 11 January, 1862, page [20]. Fort Walker (Hilton Head) was an American Civil War Confederate fort located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina at the mouth of Port Royal Sound .Built with slave labor during 1861, the fort was to defend against a Union blockade of one the south's most important ports at Port Royal. Fort Walker along with the Confederate Fort Beauregard on the opposite side of Port Royal Sound was the site of the Battle of Port Royal during November 1861. After the battle the fort was renamed Fort Welles (after Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles) by the occupying Union forces.
Physical Description:	1 print : black and white ; image 14 x 23 cm