Macon Bonner Papers, . 1862-1864

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Macon Bonner Papers, . 1862-1864

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Bonner,Macon.html

Macon Bonner (born 1836) of Washington, N.C., was a Confederate artillery officer who served in coastal North Carolina. The collection includes sixty-six letters by Bonner written to his wife, Virginia Ellison Bonner, while he was attached to the 31st North Carolina Regiment and 40th North Carolina Regiment and stationed in the Cape Fear defenses at Fort Fisher, 1862-1864, and at Fort Holmes on Smith Island (Bald Head Island), February-November 1864, describing military events and conditions in the Wilmington, N.C. and Southport, N.C., areas, especially at Fort Fisher and Smith Island, commenting on news received and state politics, and expressing his feelings.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Bonner, Macon, b. 1836.

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Macon Bonner (born 1836) of Washington, N.C., was a Confederate artillery officer who served in coastal North Carolina. Bonner joined Company B, which had been organized in Beaufort County, N.C., in September 1861. The company was later attached to the 31st and 40th North Carolina Regiments in the Cape Fear defenses at Fort Fisher, 1862-1864, and at Fort Holmes on Smith Island (Bald Head Island), February-November 1864. Bonner was married to Virginia Jennie Ellison Bonne...