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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Macon, Nathaniel 1757-1837
Statesman; born in Warren county, N. C., Dec. 17, 1757; was attending college at Princeton when the Revolutionary War broke out; returned home and volunteered as a private soldier in the company of his brother.
He was at the fall of Charleston, the disaster to Gates near Camden, and with Greene in his remarkable retreat across the Carolinas.
From 1780 to 1785 he was a member of the North Carolina Assembly, and there opposed the ratification of the national Constitution.
From 1791 to 1815 he was a member of Congress, and from 1816 to 1828 United States Senator.
He was a warm personal friend of Jefferson and Madison, and his name has been given to one of the counties of North Carolina.
John Randolph said of him in his will: He is the best, purest, and wisest man that I ever knew.
Mr. Jefferson called him The last of the Romans.
He selected for his place of burial an untillable ridge, ordered the spot to be marked only by a pile of loose stones, and
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