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Brisbane from depression. "He always called her 'Wifie' and she called him Mr. Brisbane as did most of the wives at that time in Charleston. I don't know what the custom was elsewhere....Fortunately for him he died some years before she did, just after the opening of the civil war in 1861. I am sure he could never have lived without her protecting love." Hickox writes that Brisbane was about to engage in the "
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168:(Charleston) for loans, as well as support from the City of Savannah. Although some funds were forthcoming, the lack of progress by 1843 made Hughes retreat from his commitment. This left Brisbane with nothing to pay the workers who took him and his wife hostage in their own cabin until rescued by armed horsemen.
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Though he had no children of his own who survived to adulthood, Brisbane's niece, Mary
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He retired to his plantation, Accabee (outside
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Adeline E. White, herself born in Charleston January 17, 1807, the "daughter of the distinguished painter John Blake White." They had one son together, who died in infancy, "and his loss nearly broke his father's heart." According to a family member, as a result of the
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A researcher revisiting the issue over 170 years later attributes his conversion to his admiration of the Irish
Catholics who served with him in the Seminole War. As anti-Catholicism was seriously on the rise in the 1830s and 1840s, this conversion—to which they both remained faithful to the end of
134:, now commonly known as West Point. In 1825, at the age of 21, he graduated. In the Third Regiment of Artillery of the South Carolina Volunteers, he was promoted: "Brevet Second Lieut. Abbott H. Brisbane, to be Second Lieut., 1 July 1825. He resigned from that service on January 1, 1828.
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whose accomplishments included an extensive military career, engineering work, a professorship, authorship of a major Roman
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