David Flavel Jamison

David Flavel Jamison (Pronounced "Jemison", according to local historian Richard Rhame.) His father was a physician. In 1820, Jamison attended Platt Springs Academy and studied classics there. In 1825, he joined the junior class of the South Carolina College. He did not graduate and left at the age of 17. In 1829, he studied law under Judge Glover and was admitted to the bar in 1831.

Jamison served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1838 to 1848. In 1842, he was named by Governor James H. Hammond as a member of the board of visitors of The Citadel. He was then appointed by Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens as South Carolina Secretary of War. In 1864, he was appointed by the Confederate States government as a presiding judge and president of the military court. He presided over military trials in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

Jamison wrote for the Southern Quarterly Review and other periodicals. He also wrote for the penitentiary system, including writings supporting slavery. Around 1855, he began writing The Life and Times of Bertrand Du Guesclin.

Personal life Jamison married Elizabeth Rumph, his cousin and the daughter of David Rumph, in December 1832. They had three children. His sister married judge Thomas W. Glover. In 1859, he moved from his home in Orangeburg near present-day Russell Street to a new home called Burwood in the Barnwell district (now part of Bamberg County) He moved to live closer to his friend, writer William Gilmore Simms.

Jamison died of yellow fever on September 14, 1864, in Charleston. He was buried at the old Presbyterian Cemetery on Doyle Street in Orangeburg. His grave was unmarked for almost 40 years. Alex S. Salley and his son raised funds in 1892 to add a marker to his grave.