First Breakfast at Camp Jackson, 1898 | History of SC Slide Collection

James S. White of Rock Hill kept a scrapbook of his activities as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the first South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Here he and his friend J.C. Witherspoon share their "first breakfast" outside their tent at Camp Jackson in Columbia in March of 1898.

Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.

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