Alfred M. Rhett

"[5] According to the U.S. National Park Service, "At the end of June 1863, Fort Sumter was garrisoned with 5 companies (perhaps 500 men) of the 1st South Carolina Artillery, under the command of Col. Alfred Rhett.

Captive Rhett was delivered to William T. Sherman on a rainy day when the Union Army had set up a command post in an old cooper's shop.

[7] Sherman described him as "a tall, slender, and handsome young man, dressed in the most approved rebel uniform, with high jackboots beautifully stitched, and...dreadfully mortified to find himself a prisoner in our hands.

"[8] Hitchcock was particularly astounded by Rhett confidently telling Sherman that he could easily raise 100,000 men in a month:[8] 'Conscripts are just as good as any other soldiers; discipline's the thing; all you have to do is to establish the principle.

Rhett later served as the chief of municipal police in Charleston, as South Carolina state constable, and as a trial judge[10] and/or justice of the peace.