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Civil War: The H.L. Hunley and Submarines

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Kids learn about the biography of Robert E. Lee, general for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

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Kids learn about the Battle of Fort Sumter, South Carolina. A major event that started American Civil War.

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Kids learn about the biography of Frederick Douglass an enslaved person who taught himself to read and then became a leader in fighting for the civil rights of African-Americans and women.

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Go here to watch avideo about Harriet Tubman.

Biography

Occupation: Nurse, Civil Rights Activist

Born: 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland

Died: March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York

Best known as: A leader in the Underground Railroad

Biography:

Where did Harriet Tubman grow up?

Harriet Tubman was born intoslavery on a plantation in Maryland. Historians think she was born in 1820, or possibly 1821, but birth records weren't kept by most enslavers. Her birth name was Araminta Ross, but she took the name of her mother, Harriet, when she was thirteen.

Life as a Slave

Life as an enslaved person was difficult. Harriet first lived in a one-room cabin with her family that included eleven children. When she was only six years old, she was loaned out to another family where she helped take care of a baby. She was sometimes beaten and all she got to eat was table scraps.

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Later Harriet worked a number of jobs on the plantation such as plowing fields and loading produce into wagons. She became strong doing manual labor that included hauling logs and driving oxen.

At the age of thirteen Harriet received a horrible head injury. It happened when she was visiting the town. An enslaver tried to throw an iron weight at one of his enslaved, but hit Harriet instead. The injury nearly killed her and caused her to have dizzy spells and blackouts for the rest of her life.

The Underground Railroad

During this time there were states in the northern United States where slavery was outlawed. The enslaved in the South would try to escape to the North using theUnderground Railroad. This wasn't a real railroad. It was a number of safe homes (called stations) that hid the enslaved as they traveled north. The people that helped enslaved people along the way were called conductors. The enslaved would move from station to station at night, hiding in the woods or sneaking onto trains until they finally reached the north and freedom.

Harriet Escapes

In 1849 Harriet decided to escape. She would use the Underground Railroad. After a long and scary trip she made it to Pennsylvania and was finally free.

Leading Others to Freedom

In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. This meant that the formerly enslaved could be taken from free states and returned to their owners. In order to be free, formerly enslaved people now had to escape to Canada. Harriet wanted to help others, including her family, to safety in Canada. She joined the Underground Railroad as a conductor.

Harriet became famous as an Underground Railroad conductor. She led nineteen different escapes from the south and helped around 300 of the enslaved to escape. She became known as "Moses" because, like the Moses in the Bible, she led her people to freedom.

Harriet was truly brave. She risked her life and freedom to help others. She also helped her family, including her mother and father, to escape. She was never caught and never lost one of the enslaved.

The Civil War

Harriet's bravery and service did not end with the Underground Railroad, she also helped during theCivil War. She helped to nurse injured soldiers, served as a spy for the north, and even helped on a military campaign that led to the rescue of over 750 enslaved people.

Later in Life

After the Civil War, Harriet lived in New York with her family. She helped poor and sick people. She also spoke out on equal rights for blacks and women.

Interesting Facts about Harriet Tubman

Her nickname as a child was "Minty".

She was a very religious woman having learned about the Bible from her mother.

Harriet bought a house in Auburn, New York for her parents after helping them to escape from the south.

Harriet married John Tubman in 1844. He was a free black man. She married again in 1869 to Nelson Davis.

She usually worked the Underground Railroad in the winter months when the nights were longer and people spent more time indoors.

There is a story that slaveholders offered a reward of $40,000 for the capture of Harriet Tubman. This is likely just a legend and not true.

Harriet was very religious. When she led fugitives across the border she would exclaim "Glory to God and Jesus, too. One more soul is safe!"

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. Learn about his biography, the Civil War, and his life story.

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Kids learn about the biography of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

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On January 8, 1811, he married his first-cousin-once-removed, Floride Bonneau Colhoun. The couple had ten children over an 18-year period, although three died in infancy. During her husband's second term as Vice President, Mrs. Calhoun was a central figure in the Petticoat Affair.

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Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States.

March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, South Carolina
June 8, 1845 at the Hermitage near Nashville, Tennessee

Rachel Donelson
none, but he had 3 adopted sons and was the legal guardian for 8 more children
Old Hickory

Biography:

What is Andrew Jackson most known for?

Andrew Jackson is most famous for being considered the first "common man" to become president. He also made changes to the way the presidency was run. Prior to becoming president he was known as a war hero from the War of 1812.

Growing Up

Andrew's life started out difficult. His parents were poor immigrants from Ireland and his father died just a few weeks before Andrew was born. Despite not having much of a formal education, Andrew was smart and learned to read at a young age.

When Andrew turned ten, the Revolutionary War had begun. His two older brothers both joined the army and Andrew became a messenger for the local militia when he turned 13. Both of his older brothers died in the war. Andrew survived, but had some harrowing experiences including being captured by British soldiers and receiving a scar across his face from the sword of a British officer.

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Before He Became President

After the Revolutionary War, Jackson became a lawyer and moved to Tennessee to practice law. He started up a cotton plantation called the Hermitage which would eventually grow to over 1000 acres. In 1796 Jackson became Tennessee's first member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He would also serve as Senator for Tennessee.

The War of 1812

It was during the War of 1812 that Jackson gained national fame which would later help him to become president. Jackson was appointed leader and General of the Tennessee militia. He led them to several victories. When the British were expected to attack New Orleans, Jackson was put in charge. At the Battle of New Orleans Jackson claimed the one major victory over the British in the war. With 5,000 men he soundly defeated 7.500 British soldiers. The British had over 2,000 casualties while Jackson's army only suffered around 70.

During the Battle of New Orleans, the U.S. soldiers said Jackson was as tough as "old hickory". This became his nickname.

Elected President

Jackson first ran for president in 1824. He lost the election to John Quincy Adams despite receiving more votes in the election. This was because no candidate received a majority of votes, leaving Congress to decide who would be president. They chose Adams.

In 1828 Jackson ran again. This time he won the election, despite his opponents attacking him in many personal ways including attacks on his wife, Rachel. Rachel died a few weeks before Jackson's inauguration and he blamed her death partially on his opponent's accusations.

Andrew Jackson's Presidency

After becoming president Jackson assumed more power than any president before him. Some people even gave him the nickname "King Andrew". Some of these changes, like hiring and firing cabinet members, are still used by presidents today.

Jackson wanted a small, but strong federal government. He fought against the national bank saying that it helped the rich and hurt the poor. He also insisted that states were required to follow federal laws.

How did he die?

Jackson died at his plantation, The Hermitage, at the age of 78.

Fun Facts about Andrew Jackson

When his wife died he asked his wife's niece, Emily Donelson, to serve as First Lady and hostess at the White house.

Jackson was in a number of gun duels. In one duel he was shot in the chest first, but managed to stay standing and shoot and kill his opponent. The bullet could not be safely removed and remained in his chest for the next 40 years.

Jackson is the only president to have been a prisoner of war.

An assassin once tried to shoot Jackson with two pistols. Lucky for Jackson both pistols misfired. The assassin was captured and Jackson was fine.

Upon leaving the presidency, Jackson said he had two regrets: that he "had been unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun". Clay was a political rival while Calhoun was his first vice president who proved disloyal to Jackson.

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Biographies for Kids >> US Presidents for Kids Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States. March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, South Carolina June 8, 1845 at the Hermitage near Nashville, Tennessee Rachel Donelson none, but he had 3 adopted sons and was the legal guardian for 8 more children Old Hickory Biography: What is Andrew Jackson most known for?

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Kids learn about the biography and life of Eli Whitney including his early career, invention of the cotton gin, impact on the Civil War, and interesting facts.

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A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton,[1] an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system.[2]

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History and Heritage in South Carolina's Capital

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Columbia, like Atlanta, Raleigh and many other cities, lies at the fall line of the Piedmont. This is the long, geological line at which the glaciers stopped and then retreated thousands of years ago. It's the place that the broad, flat Congaree River splits into the Saluda and Broad rivers at a place of treacherous, rocky shoals.

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Charles Pinckney, the second cousin of fellow-signer Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, was born at Charleston, SC, in 1757. His father, Col. Charles Pinckney, was a rich lawyer and planter, who on his death in 1782 was to bequeath Snee Farm, a country estate outside the city, to his son Charles. The latter apparently received all his education in the city of his birth, and he started to practice law there in 1779.

About that time, well after the War for Independence had begun, young Pinckney enlisted in the militia, though his father demonstrated ambivalence about the Revolution. He became a lieutenant, and served at the siege of Savannah (September-October 1779). When Charleston fell to the British the next year, the youth was captured and remained a prisoner until June 1781.

Pinckney had also begun a political career, serving in the Continental Congress (1777-78 and 1784-87) and in the state legislature (1779-80, 1786-89, and 1792-96). A nationalist, he worked hard in Congress to ensure that the United States would receive navigation rights to the Mississippi and to strengthen congressional power.

Pinckney's role in the Constitutional Convention is controversial. Although one of the youngest delegates, he later claimed to have been the most influential one and contended he had submitted a draft that was the basis of the final Constitution. Most historians have rejected this assertion. They do, however, recognize that he ranked among the leaders. He attended full time, spoke often and effectively, and contributed immensely to the final draft and to the resolution of problems that arose during the debates. He also worked for ratification in South Carolina (1788). That same year, he married Mary Eleanor Laurens, daughter of a wealthy and politically powerful South Carolina merchant; she was to bear at least three children.

Subsequently, Pinckney's career blossomed. From 1789 to 1792 he held the governorship of South Carolina, and in 1790 chaired the state constitutional convention. During this period, he became associated with the Federalist Party, in which he and his cousin Charles Cotesworth Pinckney were leaders. But, with the passage of time, the former's views began to change. In 1795 he attacked the Federalist backed Jay's Treaty and increasingly began to cast his lot with Carolina back-country Democratic-Republicans against his own eastern aristocracy. In 1796 he became governor once again, and in 1798 his Democratic-Republican supporters helped him win a seat in the U.S. Senate. There, he bitterly opposed his former party, and in the presidential election of 1800 served as Thomas Jefferson's campaign manager in South Carolina.

The victorious Jefferson appointed Pinckney as Minister to Spain (1801-5), in which capacity he struggled valiantly but unsuccessfully to win cession of the Floridas to the United States and facilitated Spanish acquiescence in the transfer of Louisiana from France to the United States in 1803.

Upon completion of his diplomatic mission, his ideas moving ever closer to democracy, Pinckney headed back to Charleston and to leadership of the state Democratic-Republican Party. He sat in the legislature in 1805-6 and then was again elected as governor (1806-8). In this position, he favored legislative reapportionment, giving better representation to back-country districts, and advocated universal white manhood suffrage. He served again in the legislature from 1810 to 1814 and then temporarily withdrew from politics. In 1818 he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he fought against the Missouri Compromise.

In 1821, Pinckney's health beginning to fail, he retired for the last time from politics. He died in 1824, just 3 days after his 67th birthday. He was laid to rest in Charleston at St. Philip's Episcopal Churchyard.

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A Biography of Charles Pinckney 1757-1824

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Charles Pinckney, the second cousin of fellow-signer Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, was born at Charleston, SC, in 1757. His father, Col. Charles Pinckney, was a rich lawyer and planter, who on his death in 1782 was to bequeath Snee Farm, a country estate outside the city, to his son Charles.

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George Washington was the 1st president of the United States. Learn about his biography and life story.

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Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd president of the United States. Learn about his biography and life story.

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Kids learn about Benjamin Franklin's biography. Inventor, scientist, statesman, and Founding Father of the United States.

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Kids learn about the Constitution of the United States government. The framework and supreme law of the land.

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John Rutledge, elder brother of Edward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born into a large family at or near Charleston, SC, in 1739. He received his early education from his father, an Irish immigrant and physician, and from an Anglican minister and a tutor. After studying law at London's Middle Temple in 1760, he was admitted to English practice. But, almost at once, he sailed back to Charleston to begin a fruitful legal career and to amass a fortune in plantations and slaves. Three years later, he married Elizabeth Grimke, who eventually bore him 10 children, and moved into a townhouse, where he resided most of the remainder of his life.

In 1761 Rutledge became politically active. That year, on behalf of Christ Church Parish, he was elected to the provincial assembly and held his seat until the War for Independence. For 10 months in 1764 he temporarily held the post of provincial attorney general. When the troubles with Great Britain intensified about the time of the Stamp Act in 1765, Rutledge, who hoped to ensure continued self-government for the colonies, sought to avoid severance from the British and maintained a restrained stance. He did, however, chair a committee of the Stamp Act Congress that drew up a petition to the House of Lords.

In 1774 Rutledge was sent to the First Continental Congress, where he pursued a moderate course. After spending the next year in the Second Continental Congress, he returned to South Carolina and helped reorganize its government. In 1776 he served on the committee of safety and took part in the writing of the state constitution. That year, he also became president of the lower house of the legislature, a post he held until 1778. During this period, the new government met many stern tests.

In 1778 the conservative Rutledge, disapproving of democratic revisions in the state constitution, resigned his position. The next year, however, he was elected as governor. It was a difficult time. The British were invading South Carolina, and the military situation was desperate. Early in 1780, by which time the legislature had adjourned, Charleston was besieged. In May it fell, the American army was captured, and the British confiscated Rutledge's property. He ultimately escaped to North Carolina and set about attempting to rally forces to recover South Carolina. In 1781, aided by Gen. Nathanael Greene and a new Continental Army force, he reestablished the government. In January 1782 he resigned the governorship and took a seat in the lower house of the legislature. He never recouped the financial losses he suffered during the war.

In 1782-83 Rutledge was a delegate to the Continental Congress. He next sat on the state chancery court (1784) and again in the lower house of the legislature (1784-90). One of the most influential delegates at the Constitutional Convention, where he maintained a moderate nationalist stance and chaired the Committee of Detail, he attended all the sessions, spoke often and effectively, and served on five committees. Like his fellow South Carolina delegates, he vigorously advocated southern interests.

The new government under the Constitution soon lured Rutledge. He was a Presidential elector in 1789 and Washington then appointed him as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, but for some reason he apparently served only a short time. In 1791 he became chief justice of the South Carolina supreme court. Four years later, Washington again appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court, this time as Chief Justice to replace John Jay. But Rutledge's outspoken opposition to Jay'sTreaty (1794), and the intermittent mental illness he had suffered from since the death of his wife in 1792, caused the Federalist-dominated Senate to reject his appointment and end his public career. Meantime, however, he had presided over one term of the Court.

Rutledge died in 1800 at the age of 60 and was interred at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Charleston.

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John Rutledge, elder brother of Edward Rutledge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born into a large family at or near Charleston, SC, in 1739. He received his early education from his father, an Irish immigrant and physician, and from an Anglican minister and a tutor.

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Kids learn about the Declaration of Independence major event in the American Revolutionary War.

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The community's name of Charles Town honored the king, but was changed to Charleston at the end of the Revolutionary War. By the late 1680s, the colony was beginning to enjoy prosperity, especially in the coastal areas. Its economic base depended initially on the fur trade, which fostered generally good relations between the Carolinian settlers and the local Indian tribes.

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William Moultrie (; November 23, 1730 - September 27, 1805) was a planter and politician who became a general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. As colonel leading a state militia, in 1776 he prevented the British from taking Charleston, and Fort Moultrie was named in his honor.

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Fort Moultrie - Fort Sumter National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

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In December 1860 South Carolina seceded from the Union, and the Federal garrison abandoned Fort Moultrie for the stronger Sumter. Three and a half months later, Confederate troops shelled Fort Sumter into submission, plunging the nation into civil war. In August 1863, Federal shore batteries on Morris Island began an 18-month bombardment of Fort Sumter, yet Charleston's defenses held.

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Rebecca was the daughter of Robert Brewton, a wealthy resident of Charleston, South Carolina, and his wife, the widow Mary Loughton, née Griffith. Rebecca married Jacob Motte (1729-1780) in 1758. Jacob was a townsman and planter, involved in politics. The Mottes had seven children, two of whom died young.

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Andrew Pickens (congressman) - Wikipedia

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Pickens was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Scots-Irish immigrants, Andrew Pickens, Sr. and Anne ( née Davis). His paternal great-grandparents were Huguenots Robert Andrew Pickens (Robert André Picon) and Esther-Jeanne, widow Bonneau, of South Carolina and La Rochelle, France.

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Thomas Sumter was a soldier in the Colony of Virginia militia; a brigadier general in the South Carolina colonial militia during the American Revolutionary War, a planter, and a politician. After the United States gained independence, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and to the United States Senate, where he served from 1801 to 1810, when he retired. Sumter was nicknamed the "Carolina Gamecock," for his fierce fighting style against British soldiers after they burned down his house during the Revolution.

Thomas Sumter Facts: Military Life

Thomas Sumter was born in Hanover County, Virginia Colony. Little is known of Sumters early life. He was given just a basic education on the frontier, the young Sumter enlisted in the Virginia militia.

At the end of the Anglo-Cherokee War, in 1761, Sumter was invited to join what was to become known as the "Timberlake Expedition," organized by Colonel Adam Stephen and led by Henry Timberlake.

The purpose of the expedition was to visit the Overhill Cherokee towns and renew friendship with the Cherokee People following the war. The small expeditionary party consisted of Timberlake, Sumter, an interpreter named John McCormack, and a servant.

At one point early in the nearly year and a half long journey, an entry in Timberlake's journal describes Sumter's swimming nearly a half-mile in the icy waters to retrieve their canoe, which had drifted away while they were exploring a cave.

The party arrived in the Overhill town of Tomotley on December 20, where they were greeted by the town's head man, Ostenaco and soon found themselves participants in a peace pipe ceremony.

Sumter and the group attended peace ceremonies in several Overhill towns, such as Chota, Citico, and Chilhowee.

In February 1776, Sumter was elected lieutenant colonel of the Second Regiment of the South Carolina Line of which he was later appointed colonel. He subsequently was appointed brigadier general, a post he held until the end of the war.

He participated in several battles in the early months of the war, including the campaign to prevent an invasion of Georgia Colony. Perhaps his greatest military achievement was his partisan campaigning, which contributed to Lord Cornwallis' decision to abandon the Carolinas for Virginia.

Sumter acquired the nickname, "Carolina Gamecock," during the American Revolutionary War for his fierce fighting tactics. After the Battle of Blackstock's Farm, British General Banastre Tarleton commented that Sumter "fought like a gamecock", and Cornwallis described the Gamecock as his "greatest plague.

He resigned commission as Commander of The Regiment, Continental Line, 1778.

After fall of Charleston to Clinton, 1780, while South Carolina Colony lay prostrate, Thomas Sumter formed the first militia to renew the struggle. For 18 months he alone was the South Carolina government, Governor John Rutledge (brother of signer Edward Rutledge) had moved the capitol to North Carolina.

He repulsed in attack on Tumbull's camp at Rocky Mount, July 30, 1780 and then defeated the British at Hanging Rock, August 6,1780, destroying Prince of Wales Regiment.

Sumter was met with defeat in a surprise night attack by Colonel Banastre Tarleton at Fishing Creek, August 18, 1780.

Governor Rutledge gave him a commission as brigadier general in October of that year.

He won the Battle at Fish Darn Ford, November 9, 1780 and captured Wemyss, a British Commander.

He got some revenge on Tarleton when he defeated him at Blackstock's on Novermber 20, 1780. The victory came at a cost. Sumter was wounded in the back and chest.Defeated Tarleton at Blackstock's, November 20, 1780.

Thomas Sumter Facts: Civic Service

He was elected a delegate from the district eastward of the Waterer to the First and Second Provincial Congresses which met in Charles Town in 1775 and 1776. There he was made a member of Council of Safety and immediately after the Skirmish at Lexington was made a Captain of Rangers, and then a Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of rifle regiment He was also present and took part in the adoption of the second American State Constitution by the terms of which South Carolina colony became an independent sovereignty.

He was a man of many and varied interests ranging from experiments with tobacco and cotton and silk worms.

He also raised fine racing horses and founded the town of Stateburg after the war and held land grants for more than 150,000 acres of land.

Service to his community, state and country continued from 1782 to December 16, 1810 when he retired from public life.

In 1778 he was elected by his people to the first General Assembly under the new Constitution, and after his "War Days" was elected to the state Senate which met in Johnsonborough, South Carolina in 1782.

Thomas Sumter was elected to the Assembly which met in Charleston in 1785. He was re-elected and was a member of the Assembly when, in 1788, the Proposed Constitutional Convention, was received.

He was again a member of the Legislature which met in 1789, this being his last session in the State General Assembly, thereafter refusing other nominations.

He was elected to the First Congress which me in New York in 1789.

Sumter was elected to the Second Congress but suffered his only defeat in the election of 1793. He remained out of politics for three years but in 1796 he again offered and was elected as a member of Congress held in the new Capitol in Washington DC.

Sumter was the only member from SC who voted for Thomas Jefferson instead of Aaron Burr when the election for President was thrown into Congress.

Thomas Sumter Facts: Last Years and Legacy

December 1801, the General Assembly of South Carolina elected Congressman Sumter over John Rutledge to fill Charles Pinkney's unexpired term as a Senator when the Pinkney was sent to the Court of Spain.

At the expiration of the term he was elected Senator and re-elected in December 1810. But Sumter then 76 years of age and beginning to be weary of public service and harassed by complications in his vast private enterprises, resigned and retired to end his days among the High Hills of Stateburg.

In the last year of life, he took a stand on a principle of government closest to his heart - that principle then, and now, referred to as "States Rights."

It was then that John Calhoun's doctrine of the right of nullifications by a state, in the event its reserved powers had been transgressed upon by the Federal Government, was being insisted upon by South Carolina. That dispute was at its height when he died at the age of 98.

General Thomas Sumter served his country under four presidents. He died June 1, 1832 at his home in Stateburg, South Carolina and was the last surviving General of the American Revolutionary War.

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Thomas Sumter was a soldier in the Colony of Virginia militia; a brigadier general in the South Carolina colonial militia during the American Revolutionary War, a planter, and a politician. After the United States gained independence, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and to the United States Senate, where he served from 1801 to 1810, when he retired.