SOUTH CAROLINIAN Maxcy Gregg was a lawyer, a classically educated scholar with mastery of many languages, a politician, and a volunteer soldier.
His "Sporting journals," long neglected sources of antebellum Southern h.
Gregg was a self-instructed genuine expert and avid investigator of birdlife and wild plants and he had an astronomical observatory built into his house.
But his primary interest was the natural world, especially birds, more than 50 varieties of which he must have identified.
SOUTH CAROLINIAN Maxcy Gregg was a lawyer, a classically educated scholar with mastery of many languages, a politician, and a volunteer soldier