CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN RAIDERS GENERAL MILLEDGE BONHAM LETTER 1863 for Sale

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CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN RAIDERS GENERAL MILLEDGE BONHAM LETTER 1863 For Sale

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CIVIL WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN RAIDERS GENERAL MILLEDGE BONHAM LETTER 1863:
$250.00

The western portions of South Carolinas was the scene of numerous acts of guerrilla warfare and resistance to the Confederacy. An original Copy letter from the archive of the Confederate South Carolina Governor and Confederate General Milledge Bonham written in response to raids being carried out in the \"mountain passes\" ( and likely a response to the raiders of Captain George W Kirk, a Greene County Tennessee Unionist who formed a Guerrilla Raider force of Confederate Deserters and Unionists, known as \"Kirk\'s Raiders\" including mountaineers and Cherokee Indians raiding Confederate outposts using the Blue Ridge passes from 1863 to the War\'s End). The letter was likely taken from the Confederate War office in Columbia when Sherman\'s Army took and burned the City in 1865 . Bonham;\'s efforts were not successful as Kirk succeeded in terrorizing the Carolinas rising to Colonel of the North Carolina Mounted Rifles (Armed with Spencer Rifles, they burned Camp Vance, North Carolina in 1864). 1p 8 x 5\" ink on greenish gray paper. Edge cuts, age stains, archival repair on reverse fold, Overall VG. I believe this is a copy of Bonham\'s letter written for Bonham to be retained in his Executive Office files at Columbia. Comes w bio info.