Cornwallace’s Headquarters, Camden, South Carolina
1898
Ernest Peixotto sketched this sturdy, two-story wooden home in 1898, preserving the look of the house where British General Lord Cornwallis plotted his Southern campaign during the Revolutionary War. With its distinctive double-decker porch and simple fence, the building looks deceptively quiet today, but in 1780 it was the nerve center for the British army just before their major victory at the Battle of Camden. The artist signed the piece 'E.C. Peixotto 98' in the bottom left, freezing a moment of American history over a century after the redcoats marched away.
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