Bidspirit auction | WILLIAM PORCHER MILES

WILLIAM PORCHER MILES - (1822 - 1899) Confederate Congressman and military officer, served as a colonel on Beauregard's staff, and prior to the war was mayor of Charleston. A.L.S., 1p., 8vo., Louisiana, Aug. 13, 1883, politely declining to send a photograph as '...living quitely on my plantation in the...swamp & [he] cannot have a photograph taken...' Fine condition