Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art Materials & Finish

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a campaign portrait trading on gunpowder credentials and the Manifest Destiny swagger of a republic that had just swallowed half a continent

photographed in the brass and braid of his commission the year he marched toward Fort Donelson and Shiloh

and shipped from the United States — never mass-produced overseas

Hon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century vintage tobacco art Materials & FinishHon. Andrew Pickens Butler, Late Senator From South Carolina, 19th Century. A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke and Preston Brooks's cane in answer. Butler's likeness carries the courtly hauteur of a planter class already arguing itself toward war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the