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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
e has appeared, South Carolina has had in the great national educational institution at West Point a contestant for the first place in three out of four graduating classes. In one of them the youthful representative of this State outstripped all his competitors, graduating with next to the highest record ever reached in that institution. Henry Jervey, of Charleston. Fairfield furnished the two others of the young men who have already done honor to the State. Henry C. Davis and David St. P. Gaillard. As Dr. Foote has written of the women of this section in earlier days: an education, knowledge of things human and divine, they prized beyond all price in their leaders and teachers, and craved its passion for their husbands and brothers and sons. The Spartan mother gloried in the bravery of their husbands and fathers, and demanded it in their sons. Bring me this or be brought back upon it, said one as she gave him his shield to go out to battle. But your mothers, my comrade