[Sherman's march through South Carolina - Burning of McPhersonville] – Historic Print
![[Sherman's march through South Carolina - Burning of McPhersonville], [1865 February 1] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/10/10d55d82335e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Sherman's march through South Carolina - Burning of McPhersonville], preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Sherman's march through South Carolina - Burning of McPhersonville]
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A small Lowcountry community in South Carolina, McPhersonville, is the subject here, and the drawing records its burning on February 1, 1865, as Union forces under William T. Sherman moved north from Savannah. The sheet is a field-style sketch in pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash on tan paper, a medium that let artists work quickly while troops were on the march. Its subjects, soldiers, dwellings, and troop movements, reflect the campaign's broader pattern of destruction, which many Southerners remembered for decades afterward. The small scale of the sheet makes it a useful record of how the war's march through the countryside was seen and documented at the time.
| Created / published | [1865 February 1] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash ; 15.5 x 24.9 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh),--1820-1891--Military service. Soldiers--Union--1860-1870. Dwellings--1860-1870. Troop movements--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage.United States--South Carolina--McPhersonville |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 864 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112283 |
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