19th Steel Engravings, Revolutionary War Generals

Pair of steel engravings, book plates from the late 1850's, Revolutionary War Generals, Continental Army - General Andrew Pickens & General Lachlan McIntosh. 6 1/2" X 10" each. ** some foxing to each engraving, per photos. - Lachlan McIntosh (1725 – 1806) was a Scottish American military and political leader during the American Revolution and the early United States. In a 1777 duel, he fatally shot Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. - Andrew Pickens (1739 – 1817) was a militia leader in the American Revolution. A planter, he developed his Hopewell plantation on the east side of the Keowee River across from the Cherokee town of Isunigu (Seneca) in western South Carolina. Later he was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives from western South Carolina. Several treaties with the Cherokee were negotiated and signed at his plantation of Hopewell.