This cemetery, in the heart of Savannah, was the burying ground for the city from 1750 to 1833. Its brick tombs hold the remains of historical figures such as Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, 700 victims of the 1820 Yellow Fever epidemic, and one James Wilde, who fell in a duel here in 1815. The cemetery was already closed to burials when William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union soldiers took the city in December, 1864. Since the cemetery was the largest fenced area in the center of the city, Sherman used it as a grazing ground for his cavalry. (Some irreverent troopers may have even altered the dates on a number of tombstones.) Those who believe in ghosts frequently observe them here. I photographed Colonial Park Cemetery at the golden sunset hour, yet my favorite image works here much better in black and white than in color. I kept it very simple, using only the vertical façade of a brick tomb along with a pair of vertical tombstones arrayed beneath vertical strands of Spanish moss hanging from an old oak. This haunting image allows room for the viewers imagination to enter the scene and make of it what they will.