Ruins in Columbia, South Carolina No. 2
Album TitlePhotographic Views of Sherman's Campaign
Artist
George N. Barnard
(American, 1819 - 1902)
Date1865
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 × 14 1/16 inches (25.4 × 35.72 cm)
Mount: 16 × 19 13/16 inches (40.64 × 50.32 cm)
Mount: 16 × 19 13/16 inches (40.64 × 50.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3189
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "Photo. from nature By G.N. Barnard. / RUINS IN COLUMBIA, S.C. No.2."
Markingsnone
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L10
Collections
DescriptionImage of architectural ruins with three columns upper left, brick facade remnants center, and crushed rock and rubble in foreground.Gallery Label
These skeletal ruins were all that remained of a building in Columbia, South Carolina after Union General William T. Sherman marched his armies through the city. His troops carried out a scorched-earth campaign during their 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah during the final months of the American Civil War.
George Barnard, working as a photographer for the Union Army, included this image in his album Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign (1866). Priced at $100 a copy (approximately $2,000 today), the cost was significant but, as one reviewer noted, “not by any means a great demand for so valuable a collection.”
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