CONFEDERATE GENERAL LAWRENCE M. KEITT: PHYSICAL ASSAULTS IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE; MORTALLY WOUNDED BEULAH CHURCH (COLD HARBOR) 1864

CONFEDERATE GENERAL LAWRENCE M. KEITT: PHYSICAL ASSAULTS IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE; MORTALLY WOUNDED BEULAH CHURCH (COLD HARBOR) 1864

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A period CDV size albumen image, 2” by 3-1/8” mounted on a thin card or page 5-1/2” by 8-1/2.” The photo is of a retouched image of Keitt in civilian clothes altered to create a double-breasted officer’s frock coat with buttons grouped by twos and two stars on the side of his collar and two showing on the visible shoulder strap, likely a northern photographer’s effort to show him in Confederate uniform or as he supposed one to be.

Born in South Carolina in 1824, Keitt was vociferously proslavery and secessionist, one of the southern fire-eaters in Congress. Serving in South Carolina House of Representatives from 1848 to 1853 and in the US House from 1853 to 1856, he was one of two sidemen to Preston Brooks in the 1856 attack on Charles Sumner in the Senate, blocking with pistol and cane any effort to aid Sumner. He resigned his seat, was reelected and in 1858 assaulted Rep. Galusha Grow during an argument on the House floor. He was a delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress of 1861 and was commissioned Colonel of the 20th South Carolina in January 1862. Keitt served as commander of forces on Sullivan’s Island at Charleston until moving to Virginia with the regiment in Spring 1864, being promoted to brigadier general and taking command of Kershaw’s old brigade. Leading his men against dismounted Union cavalry in the fighting around Cold Harbor on June 1 at Beulah Church, he was mortally wounded and died the next day.  [sr][ph:L]

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