The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Davidson, James Wood

DAVIDSON, James Wood, American author: b. Newberry County, S. C., 9 March 1829; d. 1905. He was graduated from South Carolina College (now the State University) and taught Greek at the Mount Zion Collegiate Institute. During the Civil War he fought in the Confederate army as adjutant in Stonewall Jackson's army corps under Lee in Virginia. After the war he took up journalism, was literary editor of the New York Evening Post, 1873, and American correspondent of the London Standard from 1873 to 1878. After 1887 he was employed in the Treasury Department at Washington. He wrote ‘Tne Living Writers of the South’ (1869); ‘A School History of South Carolina’ (1869); ‘The Correspondent’ (1886); ‘The Poetry of the Future’ (1888); and ‘The Florida of To-day’ (1889).