Charleston, South Carolina Size:XS: 30 x 20cm A hangman pulls at a

A hangman pulls at a rope secured around the neck of a bust of the Duke of Wellington

plate IV of The Harlot's Progress

The barber's boy has dropped wig boxes marked Dr Rock

Her little crown shows her to be one of the social elite

This cartoon illustrates the growing difficulties that the middle-classes were experiencing in finding

Charleston, South Carolina Size:XS: 30 x 20cm A hangman pulls at aCharleston, South Carolina, 1862 1867. Charleston is the capital of South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union in the build up to the American Civil War. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862 1867.