John
Ross Key was the grandson of Francis Scott Key, author of the Star
Spangled Banner. He was born in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1837, and
raised in Washington, D.C. Key was a draftsman with the United States
Coast Survey from 1853 to 1856, serving with Gilbert Munger (1837-1903)
and James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).
He served with the
Federal Corp of Engineers in Charleston, South Carolina, and made an
artistic record of the Federal siege of that Conf (showing 500 of 9009 characters). |
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