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
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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
Robert Barnwell Rhett
…Rhett published his views through his newspaper, the Charleston Mercury. His son Alfred M. Rhett commanded a battery at Fort Moultrie at the time of the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Rhett was born Robert Barnwell Smith in Beaufort, South Carolina…
Rhett in military uniform