Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the ... - Google Books Result
by William Kauffman Scarborough - 2006 - History - 521 pages
In late December, he organized and pledged to pay one-half of the expense of arming the Palmetto Hussars, a sixty-three-man unit designed to protect the ...
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