Raynors HCA 2017-02
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SHANNON, William. Autograph Letter Signed, to General Thomas Jordan. Charleston, August 17, 1863, 2 pp. With newspaper advertisement, entitled: “Labor For Coast Defences,” a public letter from Governor M.L. Bonham, August 19, 1863, 1 p. In large part, “As agent of the State of South Carolina I delivered to the Engineer in charge, under the call for 15th July ult some Thirteen hundred & fifty negroes, which since that time have been engaged in labor in the defences around Charleston ... I have delivered to the Engineers in charge some eleven hundred & fifty negroes under the call for the 14th of August ... I am officially identified with the success of a scheme which I have labored earnestly to make efficient, outside of that motive no man can be more deeply interested than I am in the success of the defence of Charleston, but I feel constrained from a sense of duty to ask the discharge of those Negroes furnished under the call for the 15th July, who have worked over thirty days and which are relieved by the supply rendered in the past few days. The motive prompting this direct application is that I am informed by the Engineer Department that the Negroes could not be discharged. ...
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