TELEGRAM REPORTING RESULTS OF NAVAL GUN BOAT FIGHT OFF CHARLESTON JANUARY 31, 1863

TELEGRAM REPORTING RESULTS OF NAVAL GUN BOAT FIGHT OFF CHARLESTON JANUARY 31, 1863

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Offered here is an original telegram reporting details of the Confederate attack on Union blockading ships off Charleston Harbor on January 31, 1863.

The pre-printed form is from THE SOUTHERN TELEGRAPII [sic] COMPANIES based in Richmond, Virginia. The telegram information is completed in brown ink. Dated January 31, 1863, no time listed. Sent from William T. Nance to Governor Bonham: “Our gun boats sunk one vessel, think they sunk another and set fire to third – there is not one in sight this morning. We have ninety four (94) prisoners from the Isaac Smith captured in [???] yesterday / Wm. F. Nance AAG”. Measures 8” x 4.5”.

This telegram is a report of the attempt by a pair of Confederate ironclads to lift the U.S. Navy blockade of the Charleston in the early hours of January 31, 1863. The Richmond-class ironclad rams “Palmetto State” and “Chicora” badly damaged four wooden blockaders before being chased back to Charleston Harbor.

Captain William F. Nance (1836-1881), a graduate of the South Carolina Military Academy, was a staff officer and AAG on the staff of CSA Brig-General “States Rights” Gist beginning in August 1862. He also served on the staffs of several other generals during the war and held at one time the rank of Major. After the war, he engaged in the insurance business in Newberry SC. General Gist was in South Carolina mid-1862 into 1863.

Milledge Luke Bonham (December 25, 1813 – August 27, 1890) was a lawyer, politician, U.S. Congressman, Confederate general, and the 70th Governor of South Carolina. He served as a staff officer in the Seminole War, a lieutenant colonel in the Mexican War, and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War (commanding a brigade at the First Battle of Manassas) before resigning in 1862. He was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1857–1860), resigning after South Carolina seceded. Elected Governor of South Carolina (1862–1864), where he worked to support state conscription, slave impressment laws, and anti-desertion efforts, and was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.

An interested telegram reporting the “good news” to the Confederate Governor of South Carolina. [jet] [ph:L]

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