Letter, William P. Miles to Albert Rhett Taber April 3, 1856 April 3, 1856.

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Letter, William P. Miles to Albert Rhett Taber April 3, 1856 April 3, 1856.

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The Letter, William Porcher Miles to Albert Rhett Taber was written on April 3, 1856 from Charleston mayor, William Porcher Miles, to Albert Rhett Taber. Miles informs Taber that Charleston City Council has authorized him present to Taber a silver goblet in recognition of his service to Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia during the 1855 yellow fever epidemic in those cities.

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Taber, Albert Rhett.

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Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899

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William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863....