Preceded by 69th Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens |
Milledge Luke Bonham 70th Governor of South Carolina1862—1864 |
Succeeded by 71st Governor Andrew Gordon Magrath |
Milledge Luke Bonham was an American politician and Congressman who served as the 70th Governor of South Carolina from 1862 until 1864. Served as Captain and Adjutant General of the South Carolina Brigade in the Seminole War in Florida in 1836. During the Mexican–American War, he was Colonel of the 12th US Infantry Regiment. Appointed Major General and commander of the Army of South Carolina in February 1861. He was appointed Brigadier General in the Confederate Army on April 19, 1861.[1]
Son of James Bonham and Sophia Butler Smith. Husband of Ann Patience Griffin. Final resting place in Elmwood Memorial Gardens, Columbia, South Carolina.[2]
Bonham commanded the First Brigade of the Confederate "Army of the Potomac" under P G T Beauregard. Fought in the First Battle of Manassas, commanding his brigade as well as two artillery batteries and six companies of cavalry in the defense of Mitchell's Ford on Bull Run. Resigned his commission January 27, 1862, to enter the Confederate Congress.[1]
During the Civil War, a number of Black Union soldiers and non-commissioned officers were captured and held in Charleston Jail, the first large numbers arriving from the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry from the 16 July 1863 skirmish on the Gullah island of Sol Legare and from the Second Battle of Fort Wagner on 18 July 1863. Under the acts of the Confederate Congress, these men were considered outlaws, and to be handed over and tried by the state for servile insurrection. If convicted, the penalty was death.
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