Maxcy Gregg's Sporting Journals 1842-1858
Gregg, Maxcy / Kibler, James Everett / Johnson, Suzanne Parfitt
SOUTH CAROLINIAN MAXCY GREGG was a lawyer, a classically educated scholar with mastery of many languages, a politician, a veteran of the Mexican-American War, and later a volunteer soldier for the Confederate States of America, mortally wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862 at the age of 48. His primary interest, however, was the natural world, especially birds, more than 50 varieties of which he must have identified. Gregg was a sel...