A CHARLESTON VOLUNTEER COMPANY AT DRILL UNDER THE WALLS OP CASTLE PINCKNEY In pipe-clayed cross belts and white gloves, with all llu'ir accoutrements bright and shining, here we see a volunteer company of young Confederates standing at "Present Arms" and posing before the camera. The four officers standing in front of the line are Captain C. E. Chichester, Lieutenant E. John White, Lieutenant B. M. Walpole and Lieutenant R. C. GilchrLst. Gilchrist is curving his Damascus scimitar — a blade .so finely tempered that its point would bend hack to form a complete loop.
The Photographic History
A Charleston Volunteer Company at Drill under the Walls of Castle Pinckney
Volume I, The Opening Battles, 1911, page 89
The Charleston Zouave Cadets at present arms before the camera, with Captain C. E. Chichester and his lieutenants named.
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James Barnes, “A Charleston Volunteer Company at Drill under the Walls of Castle Pinckney,” in The Photographic History of the Civil War, ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller, vol. 1, The Opening Battles (New York: Review of Reviews Co., 1911), 89.
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