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The Palmetto Battery near Charleston, 1863

Confederate artillerymen posed with a field gun near Charleston.

Confederate gunners with their piece outside Charleston. The Library’s caption log for one of the copy negatives reads: Palmetto Battery, near Charleston, S.C. Photo by Cook.

Two dates matter here and the title carries both: photographed in 1863, printed twenty-odd years later. The card is a memorial object made in the 1880s; the negative is a wartime record. The catalog’s bracketed correction — 1861 [i.e. 1863] — is the Library fixing the card’s own mistake.

The repository’s notes

No. 4389. Title from item. Caption log entry for no. 10358: Palmetto Battery, near Charleston, S.C. Photo by Cook. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The record

Title, as catalogedConfederate artillery near Charleston, S.C. in 1861 [i.e. 1863]
Title used hereThe Palmetto Battery near Charleston, 1863
PhotographerGeorge Smith Cook
FirmGeorge S. Cook’s gallery
AttributionVerified
Date, as cataloged[photographed 1863, printed between 1880 and 1889]
Placenear Charleston
Controlling forceConfederate
Processalbumen print on card mount
Formatphotographic print on card mount
Negative or printprint, from a wartime negative
CollectionCivil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints
Call numberLOT 4210, no. 8 [P&P]
Reproduction numberLC-DIG-ppmsca-35428 (digital file from original item); LC-B8184-4389 and LC-B8184-10358 (b&w film copy negs.)
Inscription on the mountHand written on verso: “See p. 281, Divided We Fought, and Miller, vol. I, p. 107”.
RepositoryLibrary of Congress
Credit lineLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
RightsNo known restrictions on publication
Rights advisory, verbatimNo known restrictions on publication.
Catalog recordhttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013651620/
ConfidenceVerified
Last verified2026-08-30

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