Milledge Luke Bonham papers, 1771-1940.

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Milledge Luke Bonham papers, 1771-1940.

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Chiefly letters and papers re Bonham's military service in the Seminole, Mexican and Civil Wars, and his public service governor and railroad commissioner, including family correspondence, genealogical information, and an unpublished biography of Milledge Lipscomb Bonham, Jr. Topics discussed include the Aztec Club of 1847, African Americans and slavery, Clariosophic Society of South Carolina College, the Whig Party, Secession, Reconstruction, politics at state, national, and international levels, and other topics; places represented include Charleston County, S.C.; Harper's Ferry, [West] Va.; Washington, D.C.; Russia; and elsewhere. Correspondents include Preston S. Brooks, William H. Gist, James Henry Hammond, Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Thomas H. Seymour, and others.

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