Morris Island

Civil War Harper's Weekly, August 22, 1863

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View of Gettysburg

Soldiers Eating

Morris Island

You are viewing a leaf from an original 1863 Harper's Weekly newspaper featuring a picture of Morris Island.  The leaf has a number of scenes around Charleston Harbor during the Civil War.  The illustration is captioned, "General View of Morris Island, Harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. - From a Sketch by an Officer in the Navy. - [See Page 542.]"