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George Alfred Trenholm (February 25, 1807 – December 9, 1876) was a South Carolina businessman, financier, politician, and slaveholding planter who owned several plantations and strongly supported the Confederate States of America.
Jun 28, 2016 · February 25, 1807–December 9, 1876. Merchant, financier. Trenholm was born on February 25, 1807, in Charleston, the son of William and Irene Trenholm. His father was a merchant, and his mother was the daughter of the Comte de Greffin, a French landowner on the island of San Domingue (now Haiti).
Shipping magnate George Trenholm had a vested interest in the new “secret weapon” since he helped finance the mission. While the mission was a success and the Housatonic destroyed, so was the Hunley.
May 15, 2016 · Trenholm acted as the South’s banking and shipping agent, smuggling cotton and gold out of the country to buy up medicines and munitions for the war effort. Getting the Yankees to...
Jan 7, 2021 · Soon South Carolina-based blockade runner George Trenholm was smuggling a million dollars in Confederate gold into Liverpool aboard his ships. With the gold came instructions from Mallory to build four rams on the sly.
George Alfred Trenholm was a South Carolina businessman, financier, politician, and slaveholding planter who owned several plantations and strongly supported the Confederate States of America. He was appointed as its Secretary of the Treasury during the final year of the American Civil War.
George A. Trenholm was one of the most distinguished citizens of Charleston, in the middle and later portions of the nineteenth century, and his memory deserves preservation.
