Statistics for occurrence #1 of “South Carolina” in entry lieber-oscar-montgomery of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...wenty was State Geologist of Mississippi.
In 1854-55 he was engaged in a geological survey of Alabama, and from 1856 to 1860 held the post of mineralogical, geological, and agricultural surveyor of South Carolina .
Serving in the Confederate army, he died of wounds received in the battle of Williamsburg, in Richmond, Va., June 27, 1862.
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