Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Wood Davidson (9 March 1829 Newberry County, South Carolina 1905) was a United States author. Davidson graduated from South Carolina College, Columbia, in 1852, studied languages under private tutors, from 1854 to 1859 was professor of Greek in Mount Zion College, Winnsboro, South Carolina, and in 1859 became principal of Carolina High School, Columbia. From 1862 to 1863, he was adjutant of infantry in Jackson's corps of Lee's army.