Alfred M. Rhett
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Alfred Moore Rhett was a rice planter, a "volatile and controversial" Confederate artillery officer, victorious duelist, police chief, and the son of Fire-Eater Southern politician Robert Barnwell Rhe
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Robert Barnwell Rhett
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Robert Barnwell Rhett was an American politician who served as a member of the US House of Representatives from South Carolina from 1837 to 1849, a US Senator from South Carolina from 1850 to 1852, an
Alfred M. Rhett
…planter, a "volatile and controversial" Confederate artillery officer, victorious duelist, police chief, and the son of Fire-Eater Southern politician Robert Barnwell Rhett. Rhett was educated at Harvard, class of 1850; in a letter to another son in 1847, Robert Rhett complained that Alfred "had spent excessively on clothing…
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