Myrtle Bush Plantation, Beaufort, S.C. in
Myrtle Bush Plantation, Beaufort, S.C. in 1862, after the Union Army occupied the coastal South Carolina in 1862. African Americans look out from the second story windows, children sit on the front steps, near African American men. The plantation house was probably abandoned by its Confederate owners when the Union Army occupied the Sea Islands in Nov. 1861. Civil War photo by Sam Cooley
Picture No
13123071
Media ID
45382675
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2400px x 2130px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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