Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant) (1818-1893) to Governor Milledge L. Bonham
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09210 Author/Creator: Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant) (1818-1893) Place Written: s.l. Type: Letter signed Date: 12 March 1863 Pagination: 4 p. Order a Copy
Replies to Bonham's defense of 9 March 1863. "I was fully alive to the sacrifices and hardships which a call on your militia must entail, ...but at the same time, I have regarded the alternative consequences that might be involved without the presence here of every arms-bearing man your State can raise..."
From the wartime papers of South Carolina Governors Francis W. Pickens and Milledge L. Bonham.
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