Object Record
Metadata
Object Name |
Handkerchief |
Catalog Number |
0985.11.00170 |
Description |
The handkerchief is red and white silk. Black printed portraits of prominent Confederate leaders are printed on the white background. Jefferson Davis is at center, surrounded by (clockwise from top): Joseph E. Johnston, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, James M. Mason, Robert E. Lee, Raphael Semmes, P. G. T. Beauregard, John Slidell, and John Hunt Morgan. |
Material |
Fabric/Silk |
Owned |
R. S. Montgomery |
Made |
W. H. Tucker Kayess, London, England, Great Britain |
Provenance |
R. S. Montgomery, a Confederate soldier, bought this souvenir handkerchief in Savannah, Georgia in 1862 and carried it the rest of the war. |
People |
Montgomery, R. S. Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (P. G. T.) Davis, Jefferson Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Lee, Robert E. Mason, James Murray Morgan, John Hunt Semmes, Raphael Slidell, John |
Search Terms |
Trent Affair Savannah, Georgia |
Subjects |
blockades blockade running soldiers |