Robert Barnwell Rhett.
(Photograph has been retouched to show him in uniform although he was not a soldier.) Nicknamed "Father of Secession." Ante-bellum congressman and senator from South Carolina. One of a group of Southern politicians known as "Fire Eaters" for their extremist views on Secession....
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/6401 |