Gone: a heartbreaking story of the Civil War: a photographic plea for preservation

✍ Scribed by Nell Dickerson

• Publisher: BelleBooks, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1935661892

✦ Synopsis

Photographer and architect Nell Dickerson began her exploration of antebellum homesteads with encouragement from her cousin-in-law, renowned Civil War historian and novelist Shelby Foote. Her passion for forgotten and neglected buildings became a plea for preservation. Gone is a unique pairing of modern photographs and historical novella. In Pillar of Fire , Foote offers a heartbreaking look at one man's loss as Union troops burn his home in the last days of the Civil War. Dickerson shares fascinating and haunting photographs, shining a poignant light on the buildings which survived Sherman's burning rampage across the Confederacy, only to fall victim to neglect, apathy and poverty. From the photographer: The Civil War had been over for exactly ninety years in 1954, when my cousin, Shelby Foote, published--Pillar of Fire --as part of his novel, Jordan County: A Landscape in Narrative. The book's stories painted a vivid picture of a fictitious...