A number of years ago I started walking and shooting  the ‘Soldiers Ground’ in Charleston. Most buried here are forgotten, some were never known even then.

These people should be remembered, now more than ever considering where we are headed. It seems like a good time to start a photo project around the old military cemetery in Charleston.

Note; I don’t know where the name Soldiers Ground came from, but that’s what it’s called. This piece of land was owned by the Magnolia Umbra Plantation. The old house still sits on this spot. CSA war (Confederate States of America) dead were enormous and the Plantation already had a cemetery, so land was appropriated for military burials. Most dead were southern soldiers, but soon CSA naval troops, and even non military burials were here. At the end of the US Civil War federal troops camped here, northern casualties were then buried in space available. On any given holiday you can see flags placed here from many different states and both Union and CSA.