Description
Very nice sixth plate ambrotype of a bearded Confederate dressed in a pleated blouse or hunting shirt. Members of Maxcy Gregg’s First South Carolina Infantry are known to have worn these blouses. Two such units were the Richland Volunteer Rifle Company and the Rhett Guard. An image identified to the First South Carolina with nearly the exact same blouse is pictured on page 114 of Shannon Pritchard’s “Confederate Faces in Color.” The soldier is wearing a nice kepi, and he is leaning on a large, partially opened book. The book is very likely a Bible. A very fine and unusual Southern image that you will not see again anytime soon. Housed in a leatherette case with repaired spine.
