Maxcy Gregg: Fire-Eater & Confederate general

By the League of the South

One of the leading Southern nationalist advocates in the Palmetto State years before secession and the US war against the South was Maxcy Gregg. The Columbia native was a lawyer, scientist and soldier who ultimately gave his life for Southern independence, killed in 1862 while resisting the US invasion of Virginia. The picture below was taken yesterday and shows a sign in Columbia, SC just a block from the Statehouse where a house once stood in which Gregg was born. Notice that the sign, erected in 1938, refers to the ‘Southern rights movement.’