According to the University of North Carolina, Yancey was a "planter, lawyer, antebellum Alabama newspaper editor, Democratic state legislator in South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia; U.S. minister to Argentina; Confederate officer in Virginia, 1861, and Georgia militia officer in the Atlanta Campaign, 1864; publisher of postwar agricultural journals and promoter of agricultural societies, business, and industry in Georgia; and brother of William Lowndes Yancey.
Many of Yancey's papers are on file at the UNC Library.
He was a member of Cobb's Legion, CSA.
inscription:
True Man, True Hero
True Philanthropist
Thy Golden Motto
"Duty Without Fear"
Many of Yancey's papers are on file at the UNC Library.
He was a member of Cobb's Legion, CSA.
inscription:
True Man, True Hero
True Philanthropist
Thy Golden Motto
"Duty Without Fear"
According to the University of North Carolina, Yancey was a "planter, lawyer, antebellum Alabama newspaper editor, Democratic state legislator in South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia; U.S. minister to Argentina; Confederate officer in Virginia, 1861, and Georgia militia officer in the Atlanta Campaign, 1864; publisher of postwar agricultural journals and promoter of agricultural societies, business, and industry in Georgia; and brother of William Lowndes Yancey.
Many of Yancey's papers are on file at the UNC Library.
He was a member of Cobb's Legion, CSA.
inscription:
True Man, True Hero
True Philanthropist
Thy Golden Motto
"Duty Without Fear"
Many of Yancey's papers are on file at the UNC Library.
He was a member of Cobb's Legion, CSA.
inscription:
True Man, True Hero
True Philanthropist
Thy Golden Motto
"Duty Without Fear"
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