1397 John C. Calhoun Sectionalist, 1840-1850, by Charles M. Wiltse (read 10 July 1976) This is the final volume of Wiltse's over-laudatory biography, but the period of Calhoun's life was and is such an interesting time that I could not help but be caught up in the three volume work. Calhoun died March 31, 1850, and was buried in Charleston, SC. The book ends:

"So he lies beneath a graying monument, all but obscured by the more pretentious memorials to the dead of later days--lies among others, great in the history of South Carolina and of the nation, rather than beneath the rich soil of his own Fort Hill. To him it would make very little difference, for he never meant his monument to be of stone, nor his final resting place to be of bricks and sod." ( )