Relics

Date1861

Terms

Relics
Wool Fiber
Paper
United States

MarkingsInscribed in pencil "Shreds of Major/ Anderson's flag at Fort/ Sumter given to F.H./ by a brother of/ Capt. Doubleday."

Credit LineBequest of Wesley P. Wilmot (2001)

Object number2002.9.10

DescriptionEnvelope with fabric flag fragments. Paper; wool. Envelope printed with blue and red flag with 34 stars and "GOD SAVE THE UNION." Inside are two 1" fragments of wool bunting, one red and one white. Civil War souvenir. Fort Sumter: location where the American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on this Federal fort in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Union forces at Fort Sumter surrendered 34 hours later, and the fort remained under Confederate control for nearly four years.