Charles Macbeth

[2] On February 17, 1865, Macbeth informed the Northern forces that the city had been evacuated, but he remained to preserve order.

When he learned of plans by Confederate loyalists to set fires across the newly occupied city, he joined with an alderman and petitioned the Northern military for assistance.

In 1881, the city's annual yearbook praised him for not just protecting his fellow Charlestonians from their enemies, but "even against themselves."

The painting, already in bad shape, suffered further damage from Hurricane Hugo.

[4] He is buried at First Scots Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

During his tenure as mayor of Charleston, Macbeth lived at 9 Legare Street in a house which has since been known as the Charles Macbeth House