Milledge Luke Bonham
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Milledge Luke Bonham was an American politician and U.S. representative. He was later the 70th governor of South Carolina from 1862 until 1864, and a Confederate General during the American Civil War.
1860s portrait of Bonham, by Mathew Brady
James Bonham
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James Butler Bonham was a 19th-century American soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. He was a second cousin of William B. Travis and was a messenger of the Battle o
Milledge Luke Bonham
…1834, and served as Captain and adjutant general of the South Carolina Brigade in the Seminole War in Florida in 1836. That same year, his older brother James Butler Bonham died at the Battle of the Alamo. Bonham studied law and was admitted to the bar, in 1837, and commenced practice in Edgefield. During the Mexican–American…
James Butler Bonham Elementary School, San Antonio, Texas