Rare Salt Print CDV of General Martin Gary of Hampton's Legion

Rare Salt Print CDV of General Martin Gary of Hampton's Legion with no backmark! This is a rare cdv to find let alone a salt print! Do not miss out on the this unique opportunity to own General Martin Gary!
 
Gary was born in Cokesbury, Abbeville District (later Greenwood County), on March 25, 1831, the son of Thomas Reeder Gary and Mary Ann Porter. He received his early education at Cokesbury Academy and in 1850 enrolled at the South Carolina College, but withdrew in 1852 as a result of his participation in a dispute with trustees and faculty known as “the Biscuit Rebellion.” He enrolled at Harvard University, graduating in 1854. Gary returned to South Carolina and read law in the Edgefield office of James P. Carroll. He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and set up practice in Edgefield.
 
A fervent secessionist, Gary was elected to the S.C. House of Representatives in 1860. After secession he joined Hampton’s Legion, beginning his service as an infantry captain. He served until the war’s end, participating in every major engagement in which the legion fought. By May 1864 he had attained the rank of brigadier general and took command of a cavalry brigade in the defense of Richmond. At Appomattox he refused to surrender. With some two hundred members of his command, he escaped and joined Jefferson Davis and his cabinet at Greensboro, North Carolina. Gary escorted the party as far as his mother’s home in Cokesbury, where he turned over his command and ended his career as a Confederate soldier.