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Although taken long before the days of moving-picture films, this series of photographs preserves the progression of the celebration on April 14, 1865—the fourth anniversary of the evacuation of
Sumter.
The evening before, the news of
Lee's surrender had reached
Charleston and made the occasion one of national thanksgiving.
The city was gay with flags; patriotic bands filled the air with music, and
Dahlgren's fleet opened the day with the full national salute of twenty-one guns from every ship in the harbor.
In
Fort Sumter the Reverend Matthias Harris, who had helped to raise the flag over the fort, four years before, opened the services with prayer.
Dr. Richard S. Storrs read that ever-beautiful passage beginning: ‘When the
Lord turned again the captivity of
Zion, we were like them that dream.’
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Raising the national flag in Sumter just four years after its evacuation (1). |
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Raising the national flag in Sumter just four years after its evacuation (2). |
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Raising the national flag in Sumter just four years after its evacuation (3). |
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Raising the national flag in Sumter just four years after its evacuation (4). |
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