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IMAGE number: EVB7066607
Image title: James Chesnut was Senator from South Carolina in the 35th and 36th Congresses, until is resignation in Nov. 1861. He then served in the Confederate army, and as an aide-de-camp to General P.G.T. Beauregard, fired the first artillery shell at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. His wife, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, kept a diary of the US Civil War from a southern perspective
Medium: photograph
Date: 1861 AD (C19th AD)

Image description: James Chesnut was Senator from South Carolina in the 35th and 36th Congresses, until is resignation in Nov. 1861. He then served in the Confederate army, and as an aide-de-camp to General P.G.T. Beauregard, fired the first artillery shell at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. His wife, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, kept a diary of the US Civil War from a southern perspective (BSLOC_2018_6_102)
Photo credit: Everett Collection / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: 19th century / North America / America (continent) / slavery / USA / government / American Civil War (1861-1865) / history / man / bow tie / clothes / politics / portrait / senate / parliament / senator / one person / South Carolina / black and white / photo / standing / waistcoat

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