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Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 to Governor Milledge L. Bonham

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09210 Author/Creator: Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 Place Written: s.l. Type: Letter signed Date: 12 March 1863 Pagination: 4 p. : Order a Copy

Replies to Bonham's defense of 9 March 1863. "I was fully alive to the sacrifices and hardships which a call on your militia must entail, ...but at the same time, I have regarded the alternative consequences that might be involved without the presence here of every arms-bearing man your State can raise..."

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