Photograph mounted on card: 'Visit to Charleston, S.C., May 14, 1895 — Gen. Wade Hampton & Maj. Theodore G. Barker'

A sepia photograph mounted on a buff card. A horse-drawn open carriage stands in a Charleston street, attended by uniformed footmen; a tall-hatted coachman holds the reins on the box, and two men in dark coats are seated in the carriage. A crowd of bystanders and other vehicles fills the background, with what appears to be a public building behind iron palings at the right. Captioned in cursive blue ink above and below the print.

The photograph records a public outing of Wade Hampton III (1818–1902) and Maj. Theodore Gaillard Barker — Hampton’s wartime adjutant — during a return visit to Charleston in May 1895. Hampton was the family’s most prominent kinsman: a former Confederate lieutenant general, governor of South Carolina (1876–1879), and U.S. senator (1879–1891). His mother Ann FitzSimons was the eldest daughter of Christopher FitzSimons the emigrant, making Hampton a first cousin of the compiler’s grandfather Dr. Christopher FitzSimons (3rd). At the time of this photograph he was 77 and seven years from his death.