汉密尔顿的浮动炮台停泊在苏利文岛的尽头，就在他们向萨姆特堡开火的前一晚 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	汉密尔顿的浮动炮台停泊在苏利文岛的尽头，就在他们向萨姆特堡开火的前一晚
品名（英）	Hamilton's Floating Battery Moored at the End of Sullivan's Island the Night Before They Opened Fire upon Fort Sumter
入馆年号	2005年，2005.100.1174.4
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Alma A. Pelot【1850 至 1869】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1861
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 1 15/16 × 3 1/8 英寸 (5 × 7.9 厘米) Mount: 3 3/8 英寸 × 4 3/4 英寸 (8.5 × 12 厘米)
介绍（中）	1861年1月，在战争爆发之前，詹姆斯·伦道夫·汉密尔顿开始建造铁甲浮动炮台，供邦联政府用来攻击萨姆特堡和南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的其他联邦阵地或海军舰艇。漂浮炮台建在驻扎在萨姆特的联邦军队的清晰视野中，长100英尺，宽25英尺，覆盖着两层铁板。它悬挂着第一面邦联旗帜。汉密尔顿炮台被拖进萨姆特堡附近的港口，从4月12日早上开始，断断续续地向萨姆特堡开火34个小时。它在激烈的反击中幸存下来，几乎没有受到什么破坏；然而，到1863年，它的保护层已经被剥去，并被南部联盟重新用于建造可航行的铁甲舰。南方军队将占领萨姆特堡，直到1865年2月17日，联邦将军威廉·特库姆塞·谢尔曼的部队切断了对查尔斯顿的补给，该市也被疏散。
介绍（英）	In January 1861, prior to the outbreak of war, James Randolph Hamilton began the construction of the ironclad floating battery to be used by the Confederate government to attack Fort Sumter and other Federal positions or naval vessels in Charleston, South Carolina. Built in clear view of the Union forces stationed at Sumter, the floating battery was one hundred feet long, twenty-five-feet wide, and sheathed in two layers of iron plate. It flies the first Confederate flag. Towed into the harbor close to Fort Sumter, Hamilton’s Battery fired on the fort intermittently for thirty-four hours beginning on the morning of April 12. It survived the intense counterattack sustaining little damage; by 1863, however, its protective skin had been stripped off and reused by the Confederacy for the construction of navigable ironclad ships. Southern troops would occupy Fort Sumter until February 17, 1865, when Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces cut off supplies to Charleston and the city itself was evacuated.