[Charles Colcock]. American lawyer and historical writer, born in Savannah, GA, on the 28th of October 1831; graduated from Princeton in 1852; from Harvard Law School in 1855; admitted to the bar in Savannah in 1856. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army and reached the rank of colonel of artillery. After the war he practiced law in New York City, and in 1877 returned to Georgia. Among his works are Indian Remains in Southern Georgia (1859); Ancient Tumuli on the Savannah River (1868); Antiquities of the Southern Indians (1873); De Soto’s March Through Georgia (1880); History of Georgia (1883); and Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast (1888). He died on the 19th of July 1893.
