Confederate artillery near Charleston, S.C.
Photographer: George Smith Cook.
Caption log entry for no. 10358: Palmetto Battery, near Charleston, S.C. Photo by Cook.
Library of Congress image.
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(In 1863, Cook) took family and studio and left Charleston to relocate “in a place safe from military action. He chose a site near the state capital, Columbia, where there would be no danger of invasion by sea. .. By the morning of February 19, 1865 the city was a mass of smoldering ruins. .. Cook’s temporary gallery was in the path of the flames and all of his equipment, his work and his records were destroyed. .. [Source: Geo. S. Cook – Studios]
