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Osborn's Gallery View of a group of Confederate dignitaries

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04509.27 Author/Creator: Osborn's Gallery Place Written: [Charleston, South Carolina] Type: Photograph Date: [1861/04] Pagination: carte de visite, 6.2 x 10.1 cm. White mount with gold border. Order a Copy

Osborn stamp on verso. View of a group of Confederate dignitaries in front of the shot furnace on the parade ground at Fort Sumter. The group is gathered beside a large mounted cannon, and is purported to contain both Wade Hampton and Gov. Francis Pickens.

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Hampton, Wade, III, 1818-1902
Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869

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