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All articles below graciously contributed by Kim
Thorp
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Date:
November 20, 1827
Location: Georgia
Paper: Macon Weekly Telegraph
On Monday last, on the Saluda mountain, near the dividing line of
North and South Carolina, Mr. Vance was shot through the body in a duel
with Mr. Carson. They were rival candidates for Congress last August in
North Carolina. Mr. Carson has been successful in both
contests. Mr. Vance, it was supposed, had received a mortal wound.
-- Augusta Courier, 12th
instant.
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17 Sep 1822 - Rhode
Island American and General Advertiser
A letter has been received in
Philadelphia, from an authentick source, which states, that Colonel
Cumming, with Colonel Montgomery as his second, and Mr. M'Duffie, with
Captain Elmer as his second, had left their respective homes for the
Saluda Gap, on the border line of North and South Carolina, to terminate
their quarrel in a second duel, which was to take place on Monday the 2d
instant.
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28 Oct 1823, Hampden
Journal
A man named Powers was lately found dead in a corn field in
South Carolina. He had been working, with others, on the Saluda dam,
and being too unwell to walk up to the house with the other hands, they
left him, thinking he would soon follow. Not making his appearance,
after dark, search was made for him all night and the next day. He
was found four days afterwards in a corn field, about a mile from where he
was left. The buzzards had partly devoured
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