CIVIL WAR SLAVE painting antique crab fishing boat house beaufort south carolina

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CIVIL WAR SLAVE painting antique crab fishing boat house beaufort south carolina:
$25000.00

"DADDY JIMMY"
James Reeve Stuart (1834-1915). Professionally restored in 1994. Canvas measures 16" by 20". Shipping will be $8.95 to any U.S. zip code.He's in a boathouse knotting up a fishing net. Online accounts of this historic Civil War figure read like they were lifted from the pages of Gone with the Wind!
"Reverend Walker had a niece named Emily Walker, who recalled that her mother sent a slave named Daddy Jimmy to Retreat Plantation to get the family's longboat, the Santa Ana, to town for evacuation during the Civil War.The boat arrived at 9:00 at night. With a lantern rigged under a canopy, six burly slaves rowed Emily,her cousin Sarah Stuart with two infants, and herfather up the Beaufort River pastBrickyard Point and across the Coosaw River to the mainland."
"Reverend Edward T. Walker, his wife Ann Bull Barnwell Walker and their family fled to Walterboro duringthe Civil War. When Union soldiers arrived at Retreat (Plantation), they pillaged the house. In doing so they found a bible hidden under the floorboards. Upon learning that the house belonged to a minister, the officer in charge reversed the order to burn the house. The bible disappeared but eighty years later a member of the Walker family received it in the mail. The package bore a Vermont postmark but no return address."