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. 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.
GONE is a powerfully moving volume that will change how you see the forgotten
buildings that hide in obscurity across the Southern landscape.