SALLEY, ALEXANDER SAMUEL
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June 16, 1871-February 19, 1961. Salley was a famous South Carolina historian and archivist who graduated from The Citadel in 1892. His pioneering work collecting, preserving and publishing the historical records of South Carolina was the origin of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. His portrait hangs in the Daniel Library. (Sources: David Duncan Wallace, The History of South Carolina, vol. 4, p. 611. REFERENCE and STACKS F269 .W25; Library of Southern Literature, vol. 15, p. 383. PS551 .L5; News & Courier, February 20, 1961, p. 1; Yates Snowden, History of South Carolina, vol. 4, pp. 14-15. REFERENCE and STACKS F269 .S69) (HN & DH)
