Title: The Evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 1861
Object type: Carte-de-visite
Date: April 1861
Artist: Attributed to Alma A. Pelot 
Artist bio: American, active Charleston, South Carolina, 1850s–1860s
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 1 15/16 × 3 1/8 in. (5 × 7.9 cm)
Mount: 3 3/8 in. × 4 3/4 in. (8.5 × 12 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Fortification, term: Soldiers, term: Cannons, term: American Civil War