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They called him The Black Knight of the South.
Col. Alexander Keith McClung of the Mississippi Rifles is one of those rare figures in history that in his own lifetime was regarded as both a national hero and one of the vilest homicidal maniacs to roam the West.
McClung became a hero during the Mexican War, served as ambassador to Bolivia and was the nephew of famed U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. He was the inspiration for Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind” and Keith Alexander in “Taproots.” Yet, he is best remembered for his penchant for dueling.

“He packs so much experience that wasn’t necessarily good. He was certainly infamous more than he was famous,” said historian Grady Howell.
Howell, who is retired from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, will be speaking on McClung’s life of heroics and violence at p.m. Wednesday during the annual meeting of the Warren County Historical Society at the Old Court House Museum, said museum curator Bubba Bolm.
“Grady’s written a lot of books and his latest is on McClung,” Bolm said.

Legends say McClung killed 25 — some say as many as 50 — men in duels.
“We don’t know t

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• David Kellogg Cartter (–)
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• Allen A. Hall (?–)
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• John Watson Writer (–)
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• Leopold Markbreit (–)
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    Alexander Keith McClung

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    Alexander Keith McClung (June 14, &#;&#; March 23, ) was an attorney from Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Mississippi, a leading officer of the Mississippi Rifles during the Mexican-American War, and briefly chargé d'affaires to Bolivia in President Zachary Taylor's administration. A dead shot with mental health problems, he is best known for his participation in a series of duels. He became a folkloric figure of the 19th-century antebellum United States, known as "the Black Knight of the South," with claims made to the effect that he killed 18 people, or participated in 14 duels and had killed 10 men, or killed seven brothers in one family. (The historical record suggests four duels with two killings.)

    Born the seventh child of a Kentucky judge and legislator, and the "most brilliant" daughter of the Marshall political family, McClung moved to Mississippi in , where he built a lonely, storied, troubled life; he considered himself "Death's Ramrod." Amongst his contemporaries, he was considered a courageous soldier, a passionate Whig (devoted to Henry Clay, and opposed to Andrew Jackson), an excellent writer, an excellent shot; sensitive, melancholic, Byronic, erratic, alcoholic, and ev

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