Orr’s Rifles Confederate Soldier Photo Group

Group of five photographs of Robert Reid Hemphill (1840-1908) the son of Rev. William Ramsey Hemphill (1806-1876) and Harriet Smith Lind (1808-1895) of Abbeville, South Carolina. Robert Hemphill entered the service in June 1861 and served with the 7th South Carolina Infantry. He was made the orderly for General M.L. Bonham and was present at 1st Manassas. In June 1862 he transferred to Co. G 'The Marshall Regiment' 1st South Carolina "Orrs Rifles" where he was promoted to sergeant major. He was wounded in action at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and taken prisoner of war at Fallen Waters on July 14, 1863, but soon exchanged and was present with his unit at the surrender at Appomattox. Group includes ¼ plate daguerreotype of Hemphill and his siblings, a ¼ plate ambrotype of Hemphill and his brothers, as well as a CDV and two albumen images of him. A nice group.