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284:). His paternal grandfather, William Trenholm (1737-1822), was born in Yorkshire, England, but he lived and worked in Charleston most of his adult life. He was forced to leave during the American Revolutionary War due to his Loyalist sympathies and business associations. He lived in New York, the Netherlands, and Santo Domingo but returned to Charleston in 1785, shortly after the war's end, and lived there for another 37 years. He introduced his son William (1772-1824) into the family business. When his father died, George Trenholm left school and went into business. 1477: 354: 631:. U.S. lawyers filed suit in Britain against the firm's assets to recover funds and against several principals, including T.D. Wagner and Charles Prioleau. The U.S. Government sued Canada for reparations for damages caused by British firms acting on behalf of the Confederacy but settled claims including $ 3 million for damages to U.S. shipping by the British-built 304:, John Fraser and Company in Charleston. He rose to become a partner, and by 1853, when he was 46, he led the company. Fraser died in 1854, and it became Fraser and Trenholm. By 1860 Trenholm became one of the wealthiest men in the Southern United States, owning real estate worth $ 90,000 (equivalent to $ 3,052,000 in 2023) and personal property (including 291:
outside Charleston. The couple had thirteen children; five (including their first four) died in infancy. In 1860, their daughters Emily (b. 1839), Anna (b. 1842), Eliza (b. 1848), Christiana (b. 1851), and sons Alfred (b. 1844), Frances (b. 1846), Edwin (b. 1850) were still living with their parents.
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and contact with the Confederate Congress. Trenholm had a "never give up the ship" personality but could do little to stop the financial havoc as the rebel government grew insolvent and printing money caused inflation. Trenholm advocated direct taxation, reducing the circulation of paper currency,
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Trenholm's son Fred sailed home from England to attend his sister Helen's wedding to James Morris Morgan. Trenholm also created trusts and deeded plantations to his children and their spouses. The U.S. government ultimately confiscated some of these properties based on the failure of the Trenholm
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His merchant firm was estimated to have made $ 9 million by blockade running with its 60 ships during the war. Although he was imprisoned briefly after the war and suffered economic setbacks, Trenholm prospered. In the postwar years, Trenholm was a prominent philanthropist, aiding black and white
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Other accounts trace $ 40,000 used by Major Raphael J. Moses (General Longstreet's commissary officer) to assist Confederate veterans struggling to return home. Some believe Trenholm ordered the bullion dumped off railroad bridges on the journey described below (noting his son William patented a
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During the war's final days, Trenholm arranged for the Confederate treasury, archives, and bullion owned by it and Richmond banks to be transported from the imperiled capital into North Carolina by a train guarded by Captain William Howard Parker and Confederate naval midshipmen. The bullion and
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He signed off on payments for Confederate spies, including operations in Canada and Washington, D.C., as well as for the defense of Richmond, Virginia. He moved to the Confederate capital after severing ties with his businesses in Charleston. Trenholm arranged for a large loan to the Confederate
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as Confederate foreign agents in Britain to manage their arrangements, especially shipping munitions home. Britain depended on the South's cotton exports. Continuing cotton exports to Britain helped the Confederacy financially and shaped British public opinion toward the Confederate cause.
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in 1868; the railroad was planned to link Charleston and the American Midwest, but it reportedly went bankrupt due to embezzlement by an official who escaped to the North. It was also likely to have been mismanaged, as the southern railroads were over-capitalized in this period.
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In January 1864, Trenholm's daughter Emily married William Miles Hazzard, a Confederate scout. Trenholm deeded the Annandale and Beneventum plantations to Hazzard shortly after the war's end, trying to protect them from potential confiscation by the United States government.
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specie were later estimated to be worth between a quarter to a half million dollars. The last published account of it reported $ 86,000 in specie hidden in the false bottom of a carriage and entrusted to James A. Semple, a Naval paymaster and son-in-law of ex-President
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In the postwar period, Trenholm became known for his philanthropy to blacks and whites in the South Carolina Low County. He wrote in 1865 that emancipation of blacks was necessary and argued for their uplift. Many South Carolinians were unhappy with
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Around June 12, a U.S. officer asked Trenholm to come to them in Charleston to answer questions. Escorted by his future son-in-law James M. Morgan (or by his son William, under alternate accounts) and carrying a bag of gold pieces, Trenholm drove to
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of Texas), Trenholm returned to his business. Manager James Welsman had been pardoned in August. On September 29, President Johnson had ordered property returned to Charleston firms, including Trenholm's, over the objection of Quartermaster General
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arranged cotton sales and financed its own fleet. The U.S. consul in Liverpool, Thomas Dudley, estimated Trenholm's fleet imported $ 4.5 million of cotton into Great Britain. However, Confederate President
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for the wedding on June 1, 1865, of his son Frank to Mary Elizabeth Burroughs in the house of the college president. Trenholm, his wife, and daughters moved into their newly purchased estate, now named
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Trenholm's wealth increased as his 60 commercial ships ran the U.S. Navy blockade. The ships carried cotton, tobacco, and turpentine to England and brought back coal, iron, salt, guns, and ammunition.
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and the remaining Confederate cabinet members in Fort Mill. Trenholm asked President Davis to accept his resignation, citing his ill health, and Davis accepted with his thanks on April 27, 1865.
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further public subscriptions for war bonds, and purchasing blockade runners (rather than continuing to rely on private shippers), but the Confederate Congress refused to pass those measures.
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on June 13. The U.S. government accused him of making off with millions in Confederate assets. He was soon joined in jail by Theodore Dehon Wagner, the manager of Trenholm, Fraser & Co.
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Trenholm's cotton brokerage firm went bankrupt in 1867. It successfully reorganized as George A. Trenholm & Son and shifted to take advantage of the state's postwar
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were armed and rode openly in groups; they were particularly militant and succeeded in intimidating many black voters. Despite the black Republican majority, Democrat
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to Elizabeth Irene (de Greffin) Trenholm and her merchant husband, William Trenholm. His maternal grandfather, Comte de Greffin, was a major plantation owner in
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Days later, Trenholm was transported by ambulance to another train carrying the Confederate government into North Carolina, where they learned President
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A member of the Democratic Party, Trenholm was elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1852 and served until 1856. After President
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The 1874 campaign season for governor was filled with violence as white Democrats worked to suppress the black Republican vote. The
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South Carolinians. He also served on railroad and bank boards. He was elected to state office again in 1874 and died in office.
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Also in the household were their married eldest son William Trenholm (b. 1846), his wife, their young sons, and Anna's mother.
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by train, escorted by midshipman James Morris Morgan (who would later marry one of the Trenholm daughters). The women rode to
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At age 21, George Alfred Trenholm married Anna Helen Holmes on April 3, 1828. Her father, John Holmes, owned a plantation on
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He was one of the few Confederate cabinet members who returned to political office in the United States after the Civil War.
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Blockade runners Theodore Jervey and A.S. Johnson were also arrested in July. Trenholm was imprisoned at
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had been assassinated on April 14. Eventually, the Confederate government, including Trenholm, reached
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Trenholm served again in the South Carolina legislature from 1860 to 1863. In 1863, he purchased the
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government from a French consortium, but the proceeds arrived too late to assist their war effort.
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and ordered released on October 11, 1865 (along with Clark, Campbell, Confederate Vice President
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alone, having bought many in 1863 before assuming his public role. He traveled from Abbeville to
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Former offices of Fraser, Trenholm & Co. in Rumford Place, Liverpool (photographed in 2019).
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used a $ 1,500 gold warrant signed by Trenholm to secure his passage on a boat to Britain.
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Trenholm died in Charleston on December 9, 1876, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery. The
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firm to pay customs duties on the many items imported by blockade runners during the war.
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that he fire his entire cabinet except for Trenholm. Davis declined, but Secretary of War
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for finding lost items in the water after the war), or had money smuggled to England by
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Trenholm sent his daughters out of Richmond on Friday, April 3, 1865, with First Lady
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broke out, Trenholm immediately moved his company's head office from New York to the
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Treasures of the Confederate Coast: The "Real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations
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Treasures of the Confederate Coast: the "real Rhett Butler" & other revelations
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Trenholm's lavish entertaining in Richmond (at the house that later became the
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Listing of business records of Fraser, Trenholm & Company, 1860-1877
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Last Train South: The Flight of the Confederate Government from Richmond
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Executive members of the Cabinet of the Confederate States of America
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vetoed Trenholm's suggestion that the Confederacy buy decommissioned
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holds the Confederate Treasury's records, many created by Trenholm.
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North Carolina erected a historical highway marker near his estate
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suspected him of involvement in President Lincoln's assassination.
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Lifeline of the Confederacy; Blockade Running during the Civil War
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1860 U.S. Federal Census for Ward 6, Charleston, South Carolina.
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Popular legend suggests that Trenholm and his exploits inspired
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National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory
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1860 U.S. Federal Census for Charleston, South Carolina ward 6
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Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital
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George Alfred Trenholm was born on February 25, 1807, in
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Confederate States Department of the Treasury officials
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George A. Trenholm, Financial Genius of the Confederacy
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George Alfred Trenholm and the Company That Went to War
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George Alfred Trenholm and the Company That Went to War
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Annandale in the 1850s, a plantation he bought in 1863.
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mining boom. Trenholm was elected as a director of the
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The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe
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At 16, George Trenholm had begun working for a major
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Index

George Alfred Trenholm

Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
Jefferson Davis
Christopher Memminger
John Reagan
South Carolina House of Representatives
South Carolina House of Representatives
South Carolina House of Representatives
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Democratic
Confederate States of America
American Civil War
Charleston, South Carolina
Saint Domingue
Haiti
Johns Island, South Carolina
cotton broker
enslaved people
cotton
plantations
Abraham Lincoln
American Civil War
Bahamas
Bermuda
ironclad

Josiah Gorgas
blockade running

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