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FACES & PLACES/Day 32: Congressman, secession convention delegate died from battle wound

Times and Democrat | Orangeburg

Jul 10, 2026

FACES & PLACES/Day 32: Congressman, secession convention delegate died from battle wound

Laurence Massillon Keitt, a pro-slavery politician who died from a mortal wound at the Battle of Cold Harbor, near Richmond, Virginia, was born and reared in St. Matthews.Keitt, bo…

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