Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina diarist his first at the wheel

his first at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo

Attributed to Thomas Huson

Aosta - Il Municipio

this Ferry Porsche designed car was a very compact sports car

Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina diarist his first at the wheelFort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, 1862 1867. Fort Sumter was the place where the opening shots of the American Civil War were fired, on 12 April 1861. The following day the Union garrison surrendered. The Confederacy then held the fort until 17 February 1865. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862 1867.