American Artifacts Preview: Images of Charleston, South Carolina in 1865

Entire Program: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/JeffersonsBi
Commercial photographer Rick Rhodes gave American History TV a guided tour of his Charleston photo exhibit. The images were taken near the end of the Civil War by photographers working for the United States department of the South. The images are part of the Library of Congress collections. To learn about the wet plate negative process used during the civil war era, view this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U1m5n-gwY8

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[phaskellhall]

As a photographer from Charleston, I would LOVE to embed this video on my blog and send a ton of traffic to it....why does cspan prevent embedding on their videos?

[Grafknar]

@whippoorwillss It began not long after the firing on Ft. Sumter, destroying much of the lower peninsula. No one knows exactly how it started.

[jjmacjjmac]

@whippoorwillss@whippoorwillss An account by telegraph in Harper's Weekly 12-28-1861 says the fire started 12-11-1861 at 9 PM from a Negro insurrection that had been raging in Charleston for two days.

[whippoorwillss]

How did that fire start? When was it?