Wednesday, August 19, 2020 9:32:08 AM
from the Pulaski wreck.
Attached is a picture of a luggage tag, or, some other type of i.d. tag, we recovered from the SB Pulaski last year. The tag reads, "R. Lamar" - Ms. Rebecca Lamar who, later in her life, authored the first hand description of the sinking of the SB Pulaski below-
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575609?seq=1&fbclid=IwAR1LXwCtThI_bXUGieBr-HV0lWj5sV-Te-tKS_ZC-71NuvqvhjxD6r49TvU#metadata_info_tab_contents
Ms Lamar was the younger sister of Gazaway Bugg Lamar ("GBL"). GBL was, among other things, at that time, one of the wealthiest persons in the country, and, a principal shareholder of the company which owned the Pulaski. Sadly, Mr Lamar lost his wife, three daughters, two sons, and a niece in the Pulaski sinking. His sister, Rebecca, and eldest son, Charles, survived the ordeal. Son, Charles, is credited as one of, or the, last persons to be killed in combat in the USA Civil War. Mr Lamar was able to remarry a few years later and start a new family. He moved to NYC after remarrying, where, he, in 1850, started a Wall Street bank called the Bank of the Republic. Its the predecessor to a bank we now call Citibank. Here are a few links to Mr. Lamar's stranger than fiction, but real, life.
Gold and silver coins are remarkable, but, some historical items, like Ms Lamar's luggage tag, are, in our opinion, priceless, and arguably, why we do this.
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