Raynors HCA 2018-10
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Carte de visite of Confederate General Louis T. Wigfall, with Anthony/Brady backmark. Very good condition. Louis Wigfall (born Louis Trezevant Wigfall (1816-1874) was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Texas from 1862 to 1865. He was among a group of leading secessionists known as Fire-Eaters, advocating the preservation and expansion of an aristocratic agricultural society based on slave labor. He briefly served as a Confederate Brigadier General of the Texas Brigade at the outset of the American Civil War before taking his seat in the Confederate Senate. Wigfall's reputation for oratory and hard-drinking, along with a combative nature and high-minded sense of personal honor, made him one of the more imposing political figures of his time.
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