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Liberty of the Confederacy
 Portraits of Lucy Holcome Pickens appear on several
denominations of Confederate States
of America notes. But why her portrait?
Pickens, wife of F.W. Pickens, the governor of South Carolina from 1860 to 1862, was
widely known throughout the South. But apparently not widely enough known because her
portrait on the $100 note was often thought to be that of Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson
Davis, president of the Confederacy.
 Pickens' portrait on the $100 note probably represented all women of the South just as
the group of soldiers represented the Civil War battlefields. A different portrait of her
was used on the $1 note.
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